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Coteau Range Manor requires a full time Care Aid. Provide personal care and activities of daily living for residents to encourage optimum level of functioning. Supports residents in meeting their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Medication assistance module
TLR, PART or equivalent to and/or be willing to obtain
Personal care workers course (16 hours)
Food Safe
Whimis
*note all courses and certificates must be obtained within the first three months of hire
Experience, knowledge and skills in providing personal care
Interpersonal skills
computer and faxing
Organizational skills
Communication skills
Ability to work independently
Light cleaning and laundry services
availability and commitment is required
Essential Skills
- Document use
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
Specific Skills
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Collect specimens
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)