Dialysis Assistant

**Categories**:Service

**Location(s)**:Owen Sound

**Types**:Part Time

**POSITION TITLE: DIALYSIS ASSISTANT**
**DEPARTMENT: DIALYSIS UNIT**
**POSITION LOCATION: OWEN SOUND**
**UNION AFFILIATION: OPSEU - SERVICE**
**STATUS: PART-TIME**
**WAGE RATE: $27.728 - $28.312**

Reporting to the Manager of Critical Care and Dialysis, the Dialysis Assistant plays a key role in the Dialysis Unit by supporting the Interdisciplinary Team to provide quality patient care.

**Qualifications / Skills / Abilities**:
**Required**
- Previous Dialysis training and experience
- Ability to understand written and verbal job instruction
- Secondary School Diploma
- Working knowledge of computers
- Functional ability to set up, prime, clean and move dialysis machines
- Ability to lift supplies and equipment up to 25lbs and assist with patient lifts/transfers
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team
- Ability to provide relief coverage
- Demonstrated effective communication skills
- Recent satisfactory performance and attendance record
- Adherence to Brightshores ‘CARE’ Behaviours (Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Excellence) and ‘LEAD’ Competencies (Lead by example, Empower, Achieve results, Develop others) and a commitment to a safe workplace free of violence and harassment
- Advocates and supports a culture of patient safety and demonstrates an understanding of how the department service and assigned responsibilities contribute to overall patient safety at Brightshores through patient safety knowledge, skills and attitudes

**Preferred**
- Successful completion of a health related college program
- Previous experience with supply management including inventory