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Provide personal care, support and daily needs for residents.
Required Qualifications upon hire:
16 hour Personal Care Worker Course (not needed if you have your CCA or PCA diploma)
Current Criminal Record Check
Food Safe Certificate
First Aid with AED Certificate
Other:
- Good Communication Skills
- Appropriate knowledge and skills to give residents the care they need
- Ability to follow instructions
- Ability to work independently and as a team
- Ability to work 12 hour shifts (day / night)
- Take additional training courses every 2 years
* No guaranteed hours. Must be available for short notice calls.
Essential Skills
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
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
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)