Health Care Aide

2 weeks ago

Grande Prairie, Canada Park Place Seniors Living Full time

**Always Essential - Park Place People**
**Join the Team**
As a leader in providing seniors’ care and housing, we offer exciting opportunities for our team to grow both personally and professionally while serving seniors and residents in our communities. Park Place offers a variety of dynamic roles suited for a wide range of education, skill sets, experience levels and expertise.

Founded by Al and Jenny Jina, Park Place Seniors Living is a family owned and operated company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Starting out as a nurse, Jenny has worked with seniors her entire career. Together with her husband Al, they opened their first location in Nelson, BC in 1993 with a goal to enrich the lives of seniors and define a new quality of care.

Today, we have a large, unique portfolio of seniors’ communities in cities and towns right across British Columbia and Alberta, and one in Ontario. Park Place operates care homes, multi-level care communities, and assisted living and independent living retirement residences.

Joining our team means opportunities to learn from a large and diverse management team. Park Place values the expertise of each of our homes and involves team members in committees and decision-making that impacts the whole organization.

**POSITION: Temporary Fulltime (until Nov 2024) Health Care Aide - Day/night line**

**LOCATION**: Prairie Lake Senior Community 11460 104 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB

Under the supervision of the Care Manager and the day-to-day direction of the RN and/or LPN, the Health Care Aide (HCA) performs routine functions involved in the provision of "person centered" care that focuses on the personal, social, physical, and spiritual needs of the resident. Duties are performed in accordance with established policies and procedures and in a manner that respects the uniqueness, dignity, worth, need for self-respect and self-determination of the resident, all in ways that promote maximum personal and functional independence within the context of a safe living and working environment.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provides holistic personal care to residents, ensuring that the residents’ activities of daily living needs are met as per policy and procedures. e.g., personal hygiene, bathing and washing, oral care, skin care, toileting, nail care, dressing, grooming and bowel and bladder care.
- Provides residents with nutritional assistance. e.g., meals, nourishment, and tray service.
- Assisting residents to and from dining areas in accordance with meal service schedules. Report any appetite/fluid intake changes or concerns immediately to the RN and/or LPN.
- Observes and reports any changes in resident’s functional and cognitive behavior to the Nurse in charge.
- Transfers residents in/out of bed, to/from wheelchair, toilet, and chair using one or two person transfers or mechanical lifts as per the resident's care plan.
- Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of residents.
- Encourages and assists residents to participate in social, physical, spiritual, and recreational activities. Assists with bringing residents to recreation programs and events.
- Maintains a clean, safe, homelike environment for residents and staff. Reports unsafe or faulty equipment immediately.
- Ensures care equipment and supplies are used and stored in a safe and efficient manner.
- Ensures residents personal items are marked, handled, and stored properly.
- Processing of soiled personal clothing as per policy and procedures.
- Removing/changing soiled linens.
- Ensures that resident rights are maintained and respected, which includes confidentiality.
- Answers call bells promptly and responds appropriately to resident requests.
- Actively participates in care centre programs, meetings, working groups and committees.
- Attends a minimum of 15 hours annually (January to December) of in-house educational in-services (provided)
- Actively participates in and promotes the Health and Safety Program
- Practices effective infection control techniques, ensuring a safe work and living environment for co-workers and residents.
- Encourages and adheres to a holistic philosophy of wellness, recognizing that everyone is capable of, to varying degrees, making decisions about his/her life and is a partner in the decision-making.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- The Duties and Responsibilities outlined about are representative, but not all-inclusive to the scope of this position._

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION**
- Must be a graduate of a Health Care Aide or equivalent program recognized by Alberta Health Services.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in the English language.
- Must be knowledgeable of methods of transfer and be capable of transferring and supporting residents of varying sizes and varying degrees of immobility.
- Previous experience in a care facility preferred.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with the various individu

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