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Cupar & District Nursing Home Inc., a 45 bed long term care facility located less than an hour northeast of Regina. Seeking CCA applicants for Relief CCA positions.
Job Summary: Provides personal care and activities of daily living for residents to encourage optimum level of functioning. Supports residents in meeting their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Qualifications: Continuing Care Assistant (CCA) certificate.
APPLICANTS WITHOUT THEIR CCA COURSE ARE WELCOME TO APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION if they do not have their CCA certificate (SIAST Equivalent), however must have at least a personal care module, TLR and some direct patient/resident care experience, as well as willing to successfully obtain their CCA certificate as per the CUPE Collective Agreement.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- 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
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test