Personal Care Aide

**The Village of Wentworth Heights **located in **Hamilton, Ontario **has exciting opportunities for a **Personal Care Aides** to join their Retirement team

**How Schlegel Villages supports our Team Members**:

- Ongoing training and personal growth opportunities
- Personal Care Aide Training
- Benefits and access to our Employee Family Assistance Program
- Vacation
- Discounts at Village Services
- Team appreciation events
- Access to The Wilfred Schlegel Hope Fund
- Retirement Savings

**As a new Personal Care Aide (PCA) joining our Village, you will**:
Support and embrace our resident-centred social culture and be proud to deliver the highest quality of personal care to our residents. You will work as a key member of our Village and neighbourhood multidisciplinary teams to understand residents’ individual needs, and advocate for residents to actively participate in decisions about their care.

Personal Care Aides (PCA) at Schlegel Villages foster exemplary relationships with residents, their families and the Village team to deliver holistic care focusing on flexible living and quality of life.

Personal Care Aides (PCA) assist our residents with all activities of daily living. A PCA supports residents with personal hygiene care, such as assisting them to the washroom, bathing, getting dressed, assistance with meals and general hygiene. Our PCAs also provide companionship and activities for our retirement residents. Our PCAs know our residents and are quickly able to identify and report any changes in the resident’s well-being to the Registered Practical Nurse.

**To be successful as our new Personal Care Aide (PCA), you will**:

- Display a caring and respectful attitude toward our residents, families, and team members
- Have an understanding of the physical, mental, and emotional demands of supporting senior care
- Hold a valid PSW Certificate that is 600 hours or greater and meets the vocational standards established by the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities, the standards established by the National Association of Career Colleges, or the standards established by the Ontario Community Support Association
- Experience working as a PSW, PCA or equivalent based on international education and have the ability to acquire the above mentioned if requested to do so. Additional document may be requested during the initial screening process.

**You can be you while being a part of our family.**

At Schlegel Villages we are redefining elder care through innovation, Village design and culture change, but we know the key to our Village success, and our residents’ satisfaction, is YOU and our teams.

We aspire to provide all members of our communities, including team members, with a life enriching experience. We are family owned and operated and we take our mission seriously: “to provide holistic health care in a home environment, located within an internal neighbourhood design that promotes a caring community with emphasis on optimal health and life purpose for each resident”.

We’d love to talk to you about what makes us different.

Schlegel Villages is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with the hiring leader.

Schlegel Villages is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome newcomers, those of visible minorities such as indigenous, youth and or new comers to Canada to apply.

**Education**: Preferred
- Technical/other training or better
- Some college or better
- High School or better

**Licenses & Certifications**: Preferred
- Personal Supp Worker Cert

**Skills**: Preferred
- Verbal Communication
- Time Management
- Teamwork
- Strengths Based
- Problem Solving
- Planning
- Organizing
- Listening
- Dependability
- Decision Making
- Creative Thinking
- Conflict Resolution

**Behaviors**: Preferred
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

**Motivations**: Preferred
- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals