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Hospice at Glengarda
301 Hilliard St E
Saskatoon, SK S7J 0E5
The Care Partner provides each patient with daily care in accordance with the patients assessment, choices, and care plan. Each Care Partner is assigned to 7 8 patients, working within a multidisciplinary team, where the patient directs the daily schedule.
The Care Partner provides physical care to patients to meet their daily needs and to achieve a comfortable level of function and wellbeing. While care is provided under the leadership of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse, the Care Partner is the patients closest advocate in the Hospice. The Care Partner promotes patients psychosocial well-being through meaningful interaction, listening, and relationship building. Working with other members of the Hospice team to support the needs of patients, families, and the Hospice, Care Partners offer friendship, teamwork, kindness and compassionate care to patients, families, and co-workers.
All Staff are members of a self-directed, multi-skilled Hospice team whose purpose is to plan, coordinate and provide excellent patient care, in a comfortable home-like environment that fosters a sense of belonging and community.
All direct care staff are trained in housekeeping, laundry, social activities, and services that affect the patients environment and quality of life.
Qualifications:
*Certification from a Care Aide/Care Assistant course approved by Saskatchewan Health
*Valid TLR certification
*Gentle Persuasive Approach training
*Clear Criminal Record/Vulnerable Sector search
*English language proficiency ability to understand and be understood by patients
*Demonstrated adherence to the Vision, Mission, Values of Emanuel Health
*Critical thinking ability to identify options and find solutions to resolve problems
*Utilizes conflict resolution techniques
*Proficiency in using Windows, Word, Excel, and Outlook
*Fluent in oral and written communication
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
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
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- 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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Immunization records
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