Valinor Retirement Home
Perth-Andover, NB
Job Details:
Benefits:
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years Work setting
- Rural area
- Nursing home/home for the aged Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
- 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
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Collect specimens
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate Security and safety
- Criminal record check Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs) Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Interpersonal awareness
- Organized
- Team player
- Patience Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening Employment terms options
- Shift
- Flexible hours
- Morning
- Night
- On call
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime required
- Overtime available Support for persons with disabilities
- Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.) Support for newcomers and refugees
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees Support for Indigenous people
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people