Personal Support Worker

**Compensation: $27.59/hour**

**Available Shift Line**: Float Worker - May support community and site locations in a coverage capacity

**Hours of Work**:*12-hour shifts; 8am - 8pm - 4 week rotation of days

**Work Location**:Orillia and Surrounding Region. May be required to support services in Muskoka as needed.

The Personal Support Worker (PSW) will work cooperatively and professionally with other healthcare providers, other agency staff, and Helping Hands staff to provide personal support services to clients, as directed by the organization. Personal support services include but are not limited to bathing, dressing, and grooming clients, emptying bedpans, and toiletry duties. The PSW may also support light housekeeping duties as assigned.

The PSW will assist clients in their daily activities, and physical exercise, and will move clients in wheelchairs or other mobility aids.

This role will support organizational policies and procedures, health and safety initiatives, and client needs. The PSW will ensure all administrative functions, documentation and charting are conducted in a timely and efficient manner, meeting all organizational requirements concerning deadlines and policies/procedures.

**What you need to have**:

- A PSW or DSW Certification or equivalent from a recognized institution; or a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Supportive Care/PSW role
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
- Current First Aid/CPR is an asset. Training will also be provided.
- Maintain own current driver’s license (G or equivalent)
- A Driver’s Abstract clear of uninsurable convictions
- Maintain own operable and appropriate vehicle
- Maintain own auto insurance policy with a minimum of $1,000,000 liability coverage with a 6A endorsement (permission to carry passengers for compensation)
- Current, clean criminal record check including vulnerable sector check
- Certification in food safety awareness is considered an asset
- Computer proficiency, with knowledge of assessment software
- Proven ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in a fast-paced work environment
- Must have the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the existing and new programs, goals, objectives, policies, procedures, etc.
- Ability to work well independently
- Awareness and respect for the cultural diversity of clients
- Knowledge and sensitivity to individuals with disabilities and disorders
- High level of integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.
- Any required vaccinations for working in the health sector

**What you will do**:

- Protect and promote the welfare, dignity, and individual rights of our clients at all times
- Provide Personal Care services as assigned and as needed with scope of practice
- Adhere to the goals, policies and aims of Helping Hands in all professional activities
- Conduct Home at Last (HAL) functions and duties, as instructed
- Provide housekeeping duties, as assigned; ensure the client’s surroundings and personal effects are clean, tidy, and serviceable
- Clean equipment
- Assemble, set-up and operate job-related equipment
- Provide personal care duties, as assigned
- Take client’s blood pressure and temperature
- Assist in collection of specimens such as stool samples, as required
- Provide limited client transportation services, as approved
- Conduct errands for/with clients including, but not limited to grocery shopping, banking, paying bills, etc. when assigned
- Provide continuation of service, with respect to oxygen administration, as stipulated in Scope of Practice, properly and safely secure tanks and related equipment during transport
- Adhere to organizational dress codes and Personal Protective Equipment policies
- Follow all infection control policies and protocols, as established by the organization
- Ensure administrative functions are completed in a timely and efficient manner
- Track own mileage and timekeeping as per organization protocols
- Assist the Manager with assessing, investigating, and following up on incidents related to clients
- Providing data entry duties including entering assessment information, statistics, etc.
- Ensure safety protocols and procedures are always adhered to; promote safe work activities by participating in safety initiatives, training and attending safety meetings, as needed. This may also include acting as an Employee Safety Representative for the organization
- Complete RAI CHA and other ongoing client assessments as assigned
- Follow all administrative and operational policies and procedures
- Bring to the attention of the Manager any incidents, complaints, and/or accidents in the organization. Such issues are to be reported immediately or as soon as practical
- Adhering to and re-enforcing the organizational structure and policies, providing support where needed to meet client needs
- Respond to emergencies (including after-hours situations) for the purpose of addressing immediate safety or client car