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Brightwater Senior Living of Riverbend, a 68 apartment personal care home dedicated to serving seniors living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, is seeking Medication Assistants. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: administering medications and treatments, measuring vital signs, documentation, and health monitoring of residents.
Previous experience in performing tasks as mentioned above is preferred.
Must be at least 21 years old and demonstrate ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
Additional Skills
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
Specific Skills
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Drug test
- Tuberculosis test