Health Care Aide

Alberta Health Services; Calgary; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Health Care Aide to deliver quality patient care at Foothills Medical Centre. This role involves assisting patients with daily activities, collaborating with healthcare professionals, and ensuring safety and comfort. This position offers the chance to work with a diverse patient population and contribute to their wellbeing. Ideal candidates will have a Health Care Aide Certificate and experience in patient care.

Qualifications

• Completion of Health Care Aide Certificate within 18 months of hire.
• Nursing students with at least 100 hours of practicum will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing direct patient care and activities of daily living.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.

Skills

Patient Care

Communication

Team Collaboration

Education

Health Care Aide Certificate

Nursing Program

Job description

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Your Opportunity:

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to provide quality patient care on units 71/72 at the Foothills Medical Centre. The patients and families served include those waiting for transfer to an alternate care setting in the community and acute medicine patients. Our patients will have complex, diverse, stable, and unstable care needs. The Health Care Aide will assist in providing direct patient care, including activities of daily living, ensuring comfort and safety, assisting with feeding, and collaborating with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to deliver high-quality patient care. The successful candidate will work on both units 71 & 72.

Description:

As a Health Care Aide (HCA), you will work as a collaborative member of the multidisciplinary team providing personal assistance and support services to patients (clients, residents) requiring short-term or ongoing support, according to the patient care plan and facility policies. You will work closely with patients, families, and caregivers across home, community, or healthcare settings, assisting nurses with routine care to meet hygiene, nutrition, mobility, recreation, and safety needs, supporting organized activities, and observing/reporting on patient mood, health, and wellbeing. Under the supervision of a regulated health professional, you will help maintain a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors, and communicate effectively with patients and healthcare professionals.

Additional details include:

• Classification: Health Care Aide
• Union: AUPE AUX
• Unit: 71/72 FMC
• Location: Foothills Medical Centre
• FTE: 0.40
• Shift: Days, Nights, Weekends (7.75 hours per shift)
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits
• Salary Range: $20.78 - $26.03
• Posting End Date: 26-MAY-2025
• Start Date: 05-JUN-2025
• End Date: 28-FEB-2026

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completion of Health Care Aide Certificate within 18 months of hire and active directory status on the Alberta Health Care Aide Directory. Must provide confirmation of enrollment.
• Nursing students enrolled in an approved Alberta nursing program with at least 100 hours of practicum, in their 1st year of practical nursing or 2nd year of baccalaureate/psychiatric nursing, will be considered. Must attest and provide proof of qualification.

Additional Requirements:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support- Healthcare Provider (BCLS-HCP)
• Experience with patients with cognitive impairments
• Ability to lift and turn patients safely using appropriate techniques and equipment (IYM)
• Ability to lift and transfer up to 50 lbs up to 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

• Connect Care Training (preferred)