Continuing Care Assistant
2 days ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 37.5 to 48 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
- Health services/allied health/health sciences, general
**Work setting**:
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Various locations
- Work in employer's/client's home
**Tasks**:
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Coordinate patient care
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- Continuing Care Assistant Certification
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
**Security and safety**:
- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Immunization records
- Vulnerable sector check
- Tuberculosis test
**Transportation/travel information**:
- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
**Weight handling**:
- More than 45 kg (100 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?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
**Workplace information**:
- On the road job
**Health benefits**:
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:
- Mileage paid
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
**Other benefits**:
- Wellness program
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