Employment Information
- Post ID: 298721607
- Open Date: June 19, 2025
- Close Date: August 7, 2025 (open for 48 days)
- Organization: Laurel's Lake Residence Inc.
- Sector: Childcare & Caregiving
- Business Location:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Total Views: 607
- Ad Active Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 3 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/halifax/298721607/continuing-care-assistant/
Job Details
- Experience: 1 month - 7 months
- Job Vacancies: 6
- Compensation: $20.00 to $21.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 48 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
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- Supply and empty bed pans
- 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
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
- Collect specimens
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Additional information
Security and safety
- Basic security clearance
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player