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RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Brightwater Senior Living of Moose Jaw, a stunning new 79 suite Personal Care and Memory Care community currently under construction is seeking dependable, warm, and caring candidates for the position of Resident Assistants for our personal care and memory care units. Job duties include but are not limited to the following: assisting residents with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, and grooming; transfer and mobility assistance, toileting and incontinence care assistance, serving meals, engaging in social activities, and personal laundry.
Certificate of completion of Continuing Care Assistant or equivalent course preferred. Personal Care Worker 16 hour course required.
Age requirements: Must be at least 18 years old
Able to speak and write in English
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- 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
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Basic cardiac life support (BCLS)
- First Aid Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Collect specimens
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)