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Cypress House has openings for Personal Care Workers. Positions involve shift work which includes days, nights, and evenings. As a 24 hours home this will include weekends and holidays, both full time and part time opportunities available.
Successful applicants are required to complete First Aid and Food Safe within 3 months of employment. The Personal Care Aide course is also required (employer will train). All successful are required to submit Criminal Record Check.
All meals and snacks are provided by employer at no cost to staff; free parking available. Benefits provided to those that meet criteria.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Computer use
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
- Maintain inventory of supplies
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling