Personal Support Worker

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 80 hours bi-weekly
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work setting**:

- Remote location
- Willing to relocate
- Nursing home/home for the aged
**Tasks**:

- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Collect specimens
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Vulnerable sector check
- Tuberculosis test
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
**Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension plan
**Long term benefits**:

- Long-term care insurance
**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available