Health Care Support Worker

Summary

Advance Your Career at Providence Health Care 

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care & the new St. Paul's Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. 

What you will do:

Do you have a passion for helping others? Do you want to increase your knowledge of health care? Are you looking for an opportunity that combines employment experience with government funded training? If so, this may be the right opportunity for you. Learn from passionate health care professionals, gain hands on experience, and earn your HCA registration. Under the direction of a Registered Nurse or another regulated healthcare professional, the Health Care Support Worker performs a variety of non-direct and/or non-clinical healthcare supports to clients, residents, families, and/or visitors in long term care, assisted living and home settings in accordance with the established care plan and safety requirements.

This position is part of the Health Career Access Program (HCAP) to increase the supply of Health Care Assistants (HCAs) in BC and support employment transitions to the health sector. HCAP provides an opportunity for individuals to begin employment in a non-direct care role (the Health Care Support Worker, HCSW) and receive employer-sponsored training leading to a provincially recognized Health Care Assistant (HCA) credential. For more information about the HCAP initiative, visit the BC HCAP website. 

To be eligible for this program, you must fully meet the requirements for HCA studies. Please review the requirements for HCA studies here. Only eligible candidates who fully meet requirements and can commit to full-time work and study will be contacted. 

JOB SUMMARY:
Under the direction of a Registered Nurse or another regulated healthcare professional, performs a variety of non-direct and/or non-clinical healthcare supports to clients, residents, families, and/or visitors in long term care, assisted living and home settings in accordance with the established care plan and safety requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education, Training and Experience

• Grade 10, including successful completion of English 10 or equivalency.

Skills and Abilities

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

• Paid Training: Hourly wage of $24.80 while working as a Health Care Support Worker and $903 stipend during HCA studies
• Comprehensive onboarding and orientation. 
• Professional growth within an innovative and supportive team. 

Your Day to Day: 

• Participates as an integral member of a healthcare delivery team to provide a variety of non-direct and/or non-clinical healthcare supports to clients, residents, families and/or visitors to meet established needs.
• Establishes rapport with clients, residents and families, and assists in promoting physical, emotional, cultural, social, and spiritual well-being. Observes clients and residents, and their environments, to identify and report unsafe conditions, behavioral and/or physical changes to designated supervisor.
• Assists with mealtime activities; sets up, welcomes and transports clients or residents to dining areas, sets up and collects meal trays, assists with limited food preparation such as heating prepared food, making tea, coffee, toast, , etc. where clients or residents require support.
• Provides assistance in carrying out activities; sets up supplies and equipment, assists with transporting clients or residents to designated areas, encourages participation in activities and provides support to clients or residents where required.
• Performs housekeeping duties such as sweeping and mopping floors, vacuuming, dusting, washing dishes, and washing, drying, folding, and delivering laundry, where required.
• Greets visitors and others in accordance with established safety, security and infection control procedures and guidelines; provides information and/or redirects to appropriate person or area, where required.
• Checks and restocks supplies as required, including personal care, first aid, and housekeeping supplies and assists in taking inventory.
• Completes and maintains related records electronically, or using documents such as inter-shift communication books, daily log sheets and progress reports related to non-direct and/or non-clinical healthcare activities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.