Care assistants play a vital role in providing essential support to individuals who require assistance with daily activities due to disability, illness, or age-related limitations.
They work in various settings, including nursing homes, hospitals, residential care homes, and private homes, providing personal care, emotional support, and companionship to those in need. Care assistants assist with tasks such as bathing, dressing, toileting, meal preparation, and medication management.
They also engage in activities with clients to promote socialization, physical activity, and mental stimulation. Care assistants must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, empathy, patience, and compassion.
This job requires a high level of physical stamina and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
Job details
- Location: 600 Cecelia StreetPembroke, ONK8A 7Z3
- Salary: $22.41 to $23.10 hourly (to be negotiated) $30 to $40 hours per week
- Terms of employment: Permanent employment, Full time
- Work time: Day, Evening, Night, Weekend, Shift, On Call, Flexible Hours, Early Morning, Morning
- Start date: Starts as soon as possible
- Benefits: Health benefits, Financial benefits, Long term benefits
- vacancies: 14 vacancies
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- or equivalent experience
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Willing to relocate
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Supplying and emptying bed pans
- Measuring patients’ blood pressure, temperature, and pulse
- Serving meals and feeding patients
- Weighing, lifting, turning, and positioning patients
- Making beds and maintaining patient rooms
- Bathing, dressing, and grooming patients
- Transporting patients in wheelchairs or stretchers
- Collecting specimens
- Accompanying patients on outside recreational activities
- Administering first aid in emergency situations
- Providing personal care and companionship
- Performing light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Laundering clothing and household linens
- Administering bedside and personal care
- Feeding or assisting in feeding
- Assisting clients with bathing and personal hygiene tasks.
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
- Personal Support Worker Certificate
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
- Reference required
- Vulnerable sector check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
Long term benefits
- Life insurance
- Other benefits
- Pension plan
How to Apply
Qualified candidate should send an email to: [email protected]