Employment Information
- Post ID: 447798306
- Open Date: June 20, 2025
- Close Date: August 22, 2025 (open for 62 days)
- Organization: Dykeland Lodge
- Sector: Childcare & Caregiving
- Business Location:Garlands Crossing, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Total Views: 308
- Ad Active Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 6 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/garlands-crossing/447798306/continuing-care-assistant/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 7
- Compensation: $18.73 to $24.09 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- 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
- 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
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Continuing Care Assistant Certification
- First Aid Certificate
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits