continuing care assistant Verified

Work setting

• Home care and visiting care agency
• Rural area
• Various locations

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Supply and empty bed pans
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Continuing Care Assistant Certification
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Immunization records
• Vulnerable sector check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Organized

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement
• Life insurance
• Mileage paid
• Pension plan