Job Title or Location

Continuing care assistant

Richmond Villa
St. Peter's, NS
Posted 6 days ago
Job Details:
$19.76 - $20.22 / hour
Full-time
Experienced

  • Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
  • Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting
  • Various locations
Tasks
  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • 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
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Transport patients between care facilities
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
Security and safety
  • Criminal record 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
Screening questions
  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you available for the advertised start date?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • What is the highest level of study you have completed?
Other benefits
  • Free parking available
  • Team building opportunities
  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week

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