Continuing Care Assistant

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 576087648
  • Open Date: December 26, 2024
  • Close Date: March 14, 2025
  • Organization: Valley Prime Caregivers
  • Sector: Childcare & Caregiving
  • Business Location:Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Total Views: 200
  • Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
  • Last Updated: 15 hours ago
  • Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/nova-scotia/kentville/576087648/continuing-care-assistant/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 1 month - 7 months
  • Job Vacancies: 6
  • Compensation: $23.00 to $24.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 60 to 80 hours per 2 weeks
  • Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Apply by: email to [email protected]
  • Education: Other trades certificate or diploma

Job Description

Tasks

  • Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
  • 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
  • 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
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate

Benefits

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Group insurance benefits
  • Night shift premium
  • Pension plan

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Other benefits
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available