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Full time (1) and Casual(2) to provide in home care for an adult male with quadriplegia: personal care (grooming/bathing,feeding),lifts, transfers, catheter care, exercises, preparing light meals, light housekeeping, transporting and attending appts. Special Care Aide or CCA (related education and experience may be considered); CPR/1st Aid, Required at hire: Satisfactory Criminal Records and Vulnerable Sector Check, valid Saskatchewan Drivers License; Work references required. Confidentiality is a must. (this is a busy household with children and pets, their care is not part of this position.) Email: heatherburke@hotmail.com or mail resume to Box 12 Tuxford, SK S0H 4C0.
(Full time position includes working Saturday and Sunday)
Qualifications are:
** Preferred candidates will have experience working with individuals with high care needs, ex. quadriplegia.
** The Full time position includes working weekends, Saturday + Sunday.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
Additional Skills
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
Specific Skills
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Shave patients prior to operations
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Child welfare check
- Driver's validity licence check