Personal Support Worker

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 15 to 35 hours bi-weekly
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

- College/CEGEP
- Health services/allied health/health sciences, general
**Work site environment**:

- Non-smoking
- Palliative care
**Work setting**:

- Remote location
- Rural area
- Various locations
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Local or regional level
- Health and medicine
- Community-based or local
- Retirement home
- Residential/client's home
- Chronic or long-term care facilities/centres
- Health care institution, facility or clinic
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Long term care center
**Tasks**:

- Care for pets
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
- Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
- Change non-sterile dressings
- Collect specimens
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Plan therapeutic diets and menus
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Cook
- Transport patients to hospital or other medical facility for further medical care
- Skin care
- Shampoo customers' hair
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Prepare meals
- Ensure infection control
- Examine patients' teeth, gums and surrounding tissue
- Ensure that local health and sanitation regulations are carried out
- Drive employers (including family members) to and from destination
- Document and record nature of injuries and treatment provided
- Body care/treatments
- Document and report deviations from specifications and tolerances
- Document work completed
- Light cleaning duties
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Assess clients by conducting range of motion and muscle tests and propose treatment plans
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
- Aid in the prevention of inadequate nutrition
- Prepare and cook complete meals or individual dishes and foods
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition
- Evaluate mobility, balance, gait and posture
- Document observations on patients' specimens
- Assess people's physical limitations, orientation abilities and mobility to establish client rehabilitation
- Analyze hair and scalp condition
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Developmental services worker (DSW) Training
- Geriatric Certificate
- Mental health first aid Certificate
- Relationship development intervention (RDI) training
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course
- CPR Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
- Personal Support Worker Certificate
**Target audience**:

- Persons with Alzheimer's disease
- Adults
- Convalescent
- Elderly
- Females
- Males
- Persons with a disability
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Terminally ill
**Area of work experience**:

- Health
- Health promotion
**Area of specialization**:

- Ambulatory monitoring
**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- Confidential security clearance
- Basic security clearance
- Reference required
- Bondable
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
- Adult Abuse Registry check
- Vulnerable sector check
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel regularly
- Valid driver's licence
- Public transportation is not available
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sitting
- Walking
- Work under pressure
**Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Between 45 and 60 kg (100-132 lbs)
**Personal suitability**:

- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
- Honesty
**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- Do you have the necessary equipment for remote work (i.e. internet, home office, etc.)?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
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