Personal Support Worker

Job Description
Access Healthcare Services Inc. is currently looking for full time and part time Personal Support Workers (PSW) to service our home and community care clients in the Alexandria and surrounding region. Afternoon and evening shifts available.
**What we offer**:

- $500 sign-on bonus
- Additional $0.50/hour evening and weekend premium
- $250 referral bonus (Refer your friends)
- Salary: $25.50-$26.75 per hour
- RRSP match
- Paid mileage
- Paid training and education
- Company sponsored health and dental benefits for you and your family
- Flexible work environment which is based on your availability
- Government funded incentives: Up to $5,440 for clinical placements

Up to $10,000 for recruitment
Up to $10,000 for relocation to rural area
Up to $10,000 for recruitment in rural area
**What will you do**:

- Assist clients with bathing (partial, complete, tub, or shower)
- Assist clients with oral hygiene, hair care, dressing, and all activities of daily living
- Assist clients with ambulation, transferring, and positioning in bed or chair
- Assist with physio exercises, ROM, etc. as per therapist’s care plan
- Assist clients with feeding and light meal preparation
- Perform light housekeeping duties as per service plan
- Make/change clients bedding as required
- Assist clients with toileting or incontinence care
- Assist and/or remind client to take medication (Do not administer medication)
- Report any changes in health condition, or safety risks to immediate supervisor
- Perform delegated tasks, specific to each client; delegated by nurse or immediate supervisor

**What will you need**:

- PSW or DSW Certificate or a successful first year nursing completion
- Proof of Covid-19 vaccination
- Vehicle required with valid driver’s license
- Car insurance with a liability of $2 million
- Valid CPR
- Step 2 TB Test (Completed within the last 2 years)
- Vulnerable Sector Police Check (less than 3 months old)
- Must be available to work every second weekend
- Must be available for 20 hours per week minimum

**The skills and qualities we look for**:

- Kind and compassionate approach to care
- Flexible & reliable
- Comfortable traveling to client’s home
- Strong communication skills in English (verbal & written)
- Bilingual (an asset)
- Willingness to drive & travel
- Use of an insured reliable vehicle
- Ability to provide holistic, client centered care
- Ability to work independently and part of a team
- Cultural education and experience
- Able to stand, bend, squat, kneel and reach freely; able to freely lift up to 35 pounds;
- Ability to travel up to 45 minutes if needed

**Incentives**:
We welcome students and recent graduates to join us and enjoy the incentives funded by the Health Force Ontario:

- up to $5,440 to PSW students as a stipend during their clinical placement with our organization.
- $10,000 to recent PSW graduates on or after April 1, 2023 in exchange for a 12-month commitment to AHSI.
- $10,000 to PSW who were previously trained and, for the past 12 months, have not worked in a role providing direct patient, client or resident care as part of an organization providing health care or long-term care services in Ontario;
- an additional $10,000 to support relocation costs for those recent PSW graduates committing to work with a home and community care employer in a rural, remote, or northern area for 12 months.
- (This includes certain Pembroke Postal Codes)
- an additional $10,000 to eligible PSWs recruited to a rural, remote or Northern community

Access Healthcare Services Inc. is proud to announce that it has recently (2023) been awarded a 4 year Accreditation with Exemplary Standing, the highest award by Accreditation Canada. We are a nurse managed home healthcare organization that provides services on behalf of Ontario Health at Home, private individuals, insurance companies and other municipal and provincial organizations in various sectors.
We would like to thank everyone in advance for their interest in AHS, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview.