Medication Certified, Personal Support Worker

**The Village of Erin Meadows** located in **Mississauga, Ontario **has an exciting opportunity for a** Medication Certified PSW **(Med-Cert) to join their Retirement Team.

**How Schlegel Villages supports our Team Members**:

- Ongoing Education & Training
- Opportunities for Advancement
- Health & Wellness Benefits
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Vacation
- Retirement Savings
- Access to The Wilfred Schlegel Hope Fund
- Discounts at Village Services
- Team appreciation events

**As a new Medication Certified Personal Care Aide (Med-Cert, PSW) joining our Village Team, you will**:
Support and embrace our resident-centred social culture and be proud to deliver the highest quality of personal care to our residents. You will work as key members of our Village and neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams to understand residents’ individual needs, and advocate for residents to actively participate in decisions about their care.

Medication Certified Personal Care Aides (Med-Cert PSW) at Schlegel Villages foster exemplary relationships with residents, their families and the Village team to deliver holistic care to our residents and medication administration to medically stable residents that focusses on flexible living and quality of life.

In addition to supporting residents with personal hygiene care, basic nursing care, companionship and activities, our Medication Certified Personal Care Aides administer medications, provide skin care treatments and record temperature, pulse and respiration under the direction of our Registered Clinical Team.

Our Medication Certified Personal Care Aide’s know our residents and are quickly able to identify and report any changes in the resident’s well-being to the Registered Practical Nurse or Charge Nurse.

**To be successful as our new Medication Certified Personal Care Aide you will**:

- Hold a valid PSW Certificate that is 600 hours or greater and meets the vocational standards established by the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities, the standards established by the National Association of Career Colleges, or the standards established by the Ontario Community Support Association
- **Have successfully completed a Medication Administration certificate or course or be willing to complete the course**:

- Display a caring and respectful attitude toward our residents, families, and team members
- Understand the physical, mental, and emotional demands of the PSW role

**You can be you while being a part of our family.**

At Schlegel Villages we are redefining elder care through innovation, village design and culture change, but we know the key to our Village success, and our residents’ satisfaction, is YOU and our teams.

We aspire to provide all members of our communities, including team members, with a life enriching experience. We are family owned and operated and we take our mission seriously: “to provide holistic health care in a home environment, located within an internal neighbourhood design that promotes a caring community with emphasis on optimal health and life purpose for each resident”.

We’d love to talk to you about what makes us different.

Schlegel Villages is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with the hiring leader.

**Licenses & Certifications**: Required
- Medication Admin Cert
- Personal Supp Worker Cert

**Skills**: Preferred
- Time Management
- Verbal Communication
- Teamwork
- Organizing
- Listening
- Multitasking
- Leadership
- Flexibility
- Dependability
- Consulting
- Attention to detail