Activation Aide-must Have

QUALIFICATIONS:

- **Must have post-secondary diploma or degree in recreation and leisure studies, therapeutic recreation, kinesiology or other related field from a community college or university. (or be currently enrolled in required diploma program)**:

- Medical certificate of good health.
- Proficiency in oral and written English
- Interest in working with the elderly
- Ability to work rotating shifts
- Multilingual ability an asset.
- WORKING CONDITIONS:

- Combination of natural light and fluorescent lighting
- Crouching, kneeling, stooping/bending for short periods of time - minor job function
- Walking, climbing stairs - major job function
- Standing for long periods of time - major job function

**Salary**: $21.57-$23.35 per hour

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- **Ensures and promotes the provision of resident-centered care and services to meet the needs of residents as follows**:

- **Supports and helps provide a Resident Advocacy Program though the promotion and respect of the Bill of Rights.**:

- **Promotes the philosophy and practices of resident centered care in all residents’ encounters and decisions.**:

- **Promotes the Resident’s Bill of Rights.**:

- **Respects and uses sensitivity in spiritual, cultural and ethnic aspects of a resident’s life.**:

- **Maintains a wellness perspective.**:

- **Supports residents in achieving quality experiences - personal and social.**:

- **Facilitates relationships between and among residents, relatives, staff and community.**:

- **Seeks opportunities for resident participation in decisions that affect the resident’s rights and lifestyle.**:

- **Monitors and improves attitudes and behaviors of family and staff to ensure inclusion of residents in decisions regarding their care.**:

- **Creates opportunities for individuals to make choices and to take actions that will enhance the resident’s sense of mastery.**:

- **Creates a comfortable and safe environment that provides opportunities for privacy, dignity, control and maintenance of personal lifestyle.**:

- **Communicates with, and supports families in their involvement and participation.**:

- **Ensures an environment with ambiance conducive to the provision and practice of therapeutically effective resident health care, yet be unobtrusive.**:

- **Participates in enhancing the residents’ quality of life by using a resident-driven approach as follows**:

- **Supports and helps provide a resident advocacy program through the promotion and respect of the Bill of Rights.**:

- **Participates in the interdisciplinary care planning.**:

- **Participates in promoting the residents’ Bill of Rights.**:

- **Provides a resident advocacy program through the philosophy of resident centered care, as well as the promotion and respect of the resident’s Bill of Rights.**:

- **Communicates with, and supports, families in their involvement and participation.**
- **Provides physical support and assistance to residents as per their individual care plans and as ordered by the Registered nursing staff in cooperation and consultation with the Physio/Occupational Therapist as follows**:

- **Participates in the restorative feeding program to provide training to residents to increase appetites, or provide training to increase resident independence who are unable because of disabilities, confusion, weakness or neuromuscular disorders.**:

- **Observes and reports changes in physical ability to the registered staff.**:

- **Assists residents in the use of restorative aides for ambulation, including canes, walkers or crutches. Provides gait training and walking programs.**:

- **Assists residents in the use of ambulatory devices used in bed, to assist them in moving or changing positions safely, such as side rails, foot brace and trapeze.**:

- **Coaches other staff, in particular new staff, in the use of hydraulic lift and demonstrates transfer of a resident from and to bed and chair.**:

- **Provides exercise to strengthen muscles and develop endurance to prepare a resident for ambulation with or without the use of assistive devices.** **Reviews and coaches other staff regarding positioning of residents in bed.**:

- **Monitors and ensures that the mobility aids are in good condition.**:

- **Provides ROM exercises to maintain joint mobility and prevent contractures.**:

- **Assists therapists in the provision of care in assigned areas.**:

- **Records statistics and keeps records as required.**:

- **Establishes daily schedule for assisting residents.**:

- **Attends care conferences as required and participates in Quality Management activities.**:

- **Assists with departmental maintenance.**
- **Provides psychological support to residents as follows**:

- **Participates in alternative forms of therapy as directed.**:

- **Provides relaxation therapy such as calming, guided imagery, music, meditation and distraction to reduce fear, pain, anxiety and assist the resident to his/her environment.**
- **Participate