Health Care Assistant, Acute, Queens Park Care Centre PATH Unit

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $ $29.83 / hour Why Fraser Health?:

Are you a compassionate Health Care Assistant with a passion for providing personal care to patients? Join our dedicated team at Queens Park Care Centre, where you'll work under the direction of nurses and in cooperation with the interprofessional care team to assist patients with daily activities, document their progress, and ensure their comfort and well-being.

Help Build the Future of Transitional Care at Queens Park Care Centre

Located in the city of New Westminster, Queens Park Care Centre (QPCC) is a warm, community-connected site offering specialized inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, an adult day program, long-term care, and the soon-to-open Patient Access and Transition Home (PATH) unit.

We're proud to be a small, friendly facility with deep roots in our community and a strong reliance on our multidisciplinary team. Our leafy green campus, active wellness committee, and strong Foundation partnership foster a culture of staff wellness, purpose, and belonging - plus, we have great parking

About the PATH Unit:

Launching in late 2025, the PATH unit will support patients who are medically stable but not yet ready to return home due to physical, functional, or social recovery needs. This unit bridges the gap between hospital and home, offering compassionate, high-quality care that empowers patients to regain independence and reconnect with their communities.

Join Us

We're building a new interdisciplinary team to bring the PATH unit to life and we're looking for passionate, creative professionals who want to make a real difference. This is your chance to help shape a vibrant, welcoming space where recovery is supported and enables patients to return home to their community.

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes

• Additional employee discounts and perks available

• Eligibility based on employment status

Detailed Overview:

In accordance with the Mission and Values of Fraser Health, the Health Care Assistant works in an acute department under the direction of a nurse (Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Nurse Practitioner (NP)), in cooperation with the interprofessional care team, and following established care plans and person-centered care. Provides personal care to patients such as assisting with toileting, bathing, skin and hair care, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, changing beds, patient positioning and mobilization. Documents on patient charts in accordance with established procedures, observes and reports patient progress, assists patients with meals, transports patients, and performs related general duties.

Responsibilities:

• Provides personal care to patients such as assisting patients with toileting, bathing, skin and hair care, oral hygiene, grooming, dressing, changing beds, patient positioning and mobilization.
• Observes and reports patient progress including anticipated/unanticipated patient responses to care, patient discomfort and/or pain, skin breakdowns, and unusual incidents and/or accidents to the designated nurse.
• Assists patients with meals by completing menu slips, checking meals to ensure the maintenance of dietary restrictions, serving and collecting meal trays and feeding designated patients.
• As directed by the nurse, measures temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and weight and obtains non-sterile specimens such as urine and stool; records and reports problems and/or changes to the designated nurse.
• Documents on patient charts for activities of daily living and other observations in accordance with established procedures.
• Transports patients using mechanical aids such as wheelchairs, lifts and stretchers.
• Assists in the admission, discharge and transfer of patients including the transfer/care of clothing and personal belongings.
• Sets up charts for new patients and attaches documents to charts as directed by the nurse and according to established protocols.
• Performs a variety of related general duties such as answering the phone, maintaining storage areas, ordering supplies through stores, transporting specimens, maintaining and locating inventory of equipment, cleaning and caring for equipment such as commodes/bed pans, and maintaining tidy patient rooms and patient care areas.
• Attends internal/external committees, patient care meetings and training sessions as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education, Training and Experience

Grade 10 plus graduation from a recognized Health Care Assistant program or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Current Food Safe Level One, as required.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.