Job Title or Location

Continuing care assistant

Mountains and Meadows Care Group - 3 Jobs

Bridgetown, NS

Job Details:

$24.29 - $26.99 / hour
Contract
Experienced

Overview
  • Job Duration: Temporaire
  • Language of Work: English
  • Hours of Work: 80 hours bi-weekly
  • Education:
  • Experience:
  • Education
  • Other trades certificate or diploma
  • Work setting
  • Rural area
  • Nursing home/home for the aged
  • Tasks
  • Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
  • Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Perform other duties related to personal care
  • 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
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
  • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
  • Continuing Care Assistant Certification
  • Security and safety
  • Vulnerable sector check
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Sound discrimination
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Walking
  • Weight handling
  • Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
  • Personal suitability
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Patience
  • Screening questions
  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Experience
  • Experience an asset
  • Employment terms options
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Financial benefits
  • As per collective agreement
  • Other benefits
  • Other benefits
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available
  • Travel insurance
  • Wellness program
  • Support for persons with disabilities
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities
  • Support for newcomers and refugees
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
  • Support for Veterans
  • Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)
  • Support for Indigenous people
  • Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
  • Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
  • Support for mature workers
  • Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)
  • Offers resources to help mature workers plan their retirement (for example: financial planning, access to pension and benefits, lifestyle adjustments, etc.)
  • Supports for visible minorities
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities