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Full time (1) and Casual(2) to provide in-home care for an adult male with quadriplegia: personal care, exercises, preparing light meals, light housekeeping, transporting and attending appts. Special Care Aide or related education preferred, but will train. Satisfactory Criminal Records and Vulnerable Sector Check, proof of valid Saskatchewan Drivers License. WORK references required. 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.
** varied shifts, includes weekends
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