Personal Support Worker

**About us**

Help Now Healthcare is one of Canada's fastest growing Healthcare Agencies. Flexible Scheduling, Competitive Pay, Training & Staff Support are just some of the reasons why more healthcare professionals continue to grow with Help Now.

We are professional, supportive, and inclusive, and our goal is to provide flexible-scheduling and provide supportive work placement sites..

Our work environment includes:

- Growth opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- On-the-job training

**Unlike other healthcare agencies we do not place you in multiple locations, we train you and place you at a single work-placement site.**

**Currently hiring for a LONG-TERM CARE HOME**

**WHY WORK FOR HELP NOW HEALTHCARE?**
- We pay the highest competitive rates
- Flexible scheduling
- Paid Training
- Overtime pay
- Positive culture and 24/7 professional support

Experience in Long-Term Care is an asset

**Top Rated Pay in GTA for Nurses 100% Employee Satisfaction**

**Requirements**:
The Personal Support Worker is a critical role within our communities as it impacts the lives of residents.

As a Personal Support Worker your typical day will impact the following ways:

- Ensures and promotes the provision of resident-focused care to meet the needs of residents
- Provides supervision and/or assistance to residents in the activities of daily living including eating, dressing, transferring, toileting, hygiene, grooming, and bathing as per residents’ individual plans of care to meet their needs and expectations
- Provides care and services to residents with respect to their senses and communication by encouraging residents to wear individual sensory aids such as glasses, hearing aides, etc.
- Provides cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual support
- Provides oral and dental care
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Knowledge of Cantonese language will be an asset.

Must haves:

- Successful completion of a Personal Support Worker Diploma from an approved college or private institution meeting the standards established by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, National Association of Career Colleges, as per established provincial requirements
- Continues to grow and develop through attendance at in services, seminars, workshops, etc.
- Demonstrated working experience with the elderly in a health care setting, knowledgeable with respect to their needs
- Knowledge of procedures and techniques involved in administering simple treatment and related bedside care to resident
- Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy in dealing with residents, families, and visitors
- All applicants must successfully pass the prescribed Vulnerable Sector Check. Applicable to Ontario applicants.
- Current Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification (BCLS) preferred
- Help Now Healthcare and our Clients are looking for Heroes. We are actively looking for Compassionate, Engaging & Caring _**PSWs**_
- Help Now Healthcare conducts phone interviews
- Help Now Healthcare offers FREE* _educational workshops_* Join us Today

**Job Types**: Part-time, Casual

**Salary**: $21.00-$23.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Every Weekend
- Night shift
- On call
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

COVID-19 considerations:
Ability to commute/relocate:

- Vaughan, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- Vaccinated as per the COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate for Healthcare Workers in Long-Term Care Homes?

**Experience**:

- PSW: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- CPR Certification (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)
- Overnight Shift (preferred)

Work Location: On the road