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Golden Health Care is one of the largest private providers of senior care in the Province. The senior care facility in Swift Current is called Cypress House. We strive for excellence in an "Aging in Place" environment resident with an enhanced quality of life, comfortable and thoughtful accommodations and the Freedom of choice.
Golden Health Care is currently looking for positions at Cypress House, A 72 suite Personal Care Home located at 2135 Scott Street Swift Current.
We are looking for individual with great teamwork skills and a passion to make a difference in the lives of seniors. All staff require a valid certificate in a food service course, standard first aid. If staff do not have the courses before hired, they must complete them within 3 months of the date of hire. Benefit plan available.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
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
- 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
- Collect specimens
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Driver's validity licence check