continuing care assistant

Mahone Bay Nursing Home; Town of Mahone Bay; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A Nursing Home in Mahone Bay is seeking a Continuing Care Assistant to provide essential support and personal care to residents. The successful candidate will engage in various hands-on tasks, ensuring residents' comfort while meeting their care needs. This role demands a dedicated individual with strong interpersonal skills, relevant certifications, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Free parking available

Learning / training paid by employer

Team building opportunities

Qualifications

• 1 year to less than 2 years of experience required.
• Must have required certifications for patient care.
• Ability to work under physically demanding conditions.

Responsibilities

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities.
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
• Bathe, dress, and groom patients.

Skills

Client focus

Efficient interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Interpersonal awareness

Reliability

Team player

Education

College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Continuing Care Assistant Certification

First Aid Certificate

CPR Certificate

Job description

• Education :

Education

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Work setting

• Nursing home / home for the aged

Tasks

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Perform other duties related to personal care
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• Continuing Care Assistant Certification
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Area of work experience

• University or college

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Immunization records
• Vulnerable sector check

Transportation / travel information

• Own transportation
• Own vehicle

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Are you available for shift or on-call work?
• Are you available for the advertised start date?
• Are you currently a student?
• Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
• Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
• Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
• What is the highest level of study you have completed?

Experience

• 1 year to less than 2 years
• As per collective agreement

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning / training paid by employer
• Other benefits
• Team building opportunities
• Parking available

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Continuing Care Assistant • Mahone Bay, NS, CA