Personal Care Attendant

**Position Information**

**Posting Number**:

- ROM25-015E

**Title**:

- Personal Care Attendant (RPT 0.4 FTE)

**Position Status**:

- Regular Part-time

**FTE**:

- 0.4

**Job Schedule**:

- Days

**Department**:

- Long Term Care

**Union**:

- CUPE Local 942

**Site**:

- Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

**About The Royal**
- As one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education._

**Staff of Royal Ottawa Place will create an environment where residents, living with a stable but long-term mental illness and with associated behavioural and safety issues can feel at home and have a full, meaningful and diverse life. Staff will provide opportunities for the residents to maintain control over many aspects of their lives in a safe and secure environment.**

**Purpose**:
The restorative PCA is responsible for providing a resident centred program that maximizes the residents ability by leading interventions that help the resident reach the highest practicable level of functioning and well-being through individualized progressive restorative programs.

**Duties**:

- Works under the direction of and in collaboration with the RPN and the Registered Nurse in the care of residents.
- Performs active range of motion and passive range of motion exercises with residents in a safe manner as assigned.
- Ambulates residents as assigned utilizing appropriate equipment or devices.
- Encourages the residents to perform restorative interventions for themselves as appropriate and as assigned.
- Participates within an interdisciplinary team to provide the best possible care for residents and their support systems as they deal with mental health disorders.
- Engages the residents in participation and assuming control in decision making.
- Maintains documentation and gather data as required.
- Participates in Restorative care team meetings.
- Collaborates with the care team to assess the capabilities of the resident and support the resident at all times.
- Documents on Point of Care and other records as required.
- Evaluates the resident progress and communicates to team.
- Assesses and reports daily on the resident’s condition and how care plan interventions are working.
- Reports to the RN/RPN any adverse conditions experienced by the resident during the provision of restorative care.
- Other duties as required for the maintenance of a home-like lifestyle of the resident.
- Participates in research related activities to support the facility’s mission to be a centre of training, education and excellence in long-term mental health care.
- Practices good body mechanics while delivering restorative nursing care to prevent injuries to self or to others.
- Cooperates with other therapists when providing restorative nursing care to residents when appropriate.
- Works in a manner that is in compliance with staff and client safety practices, policies and procedures of the Royal.
- Ensure a work environment that is conducive to The Royal’s Anti-Racism, Harassment & Discrimination Free policy.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**:

- Personal Support Worker certification with 1 year documented experience in long-term care including psychiatric and mental health care, or RPN student with a minimum successful completion of year one, or RN student with a minimum successful completion of year two.
- CPR training or re-certification within the last 12 months.
- Current knowledge of and training in mechanical lifts, transferring and positioning techniques for residents.
- Desires to work with those living with a stable but long-term mental illness with associated behavioural and safety issues.
- Computer skills are an asset.
- English level A- is mandatory in oral expression, oral comprehension, reading and writing. Bilingual (French/English) is considered an asset.

**Salary Range**:
**Personal Care Attendant Long Term Care salary scale: $31.98-$33.80 per hour.**

**(Hours Worked in Geriatric Psychiatry - salary**scale: $30.87-$32.71 per hour.)**

**Salary Range**:

- 31.98 to 33.80 per hour

**Additional Information**
- All applicants must provide a recent resume that clearly indicate that they meet the required qualifications.
- The Royal sincerely thanks all applicants for their interest in a career with us; however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
- All new hires will be required to obtain a clear and valid Criminal Record or Vulnerable Sector Records Check as a pre-condition of employment.
- The Royal is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, accommodations due to a disability are available th