Continuing Care Assistant

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 715409465
  • Open Date: May 2, 2024
  • Close Date: June 27, 2024
  • Organization: Valley Prime Caregivers, Incorporated
  • Sector: Childcare & Caregiving
  • Business Location:Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Job Details

  • Experience: 1 month - 7 months
  • Job Vacancies: 10
  • Compensation: $19.50 to $23.00 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

  • 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
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate