12 Sep 2023

Continuing care assistant

  • Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Associations – Posted by Employer
  • Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Job ID : 119278
  • Category : Health Care
  • Job Type : Full-Time
  • Salary : $17.56 Hourly
  • Anticipated Start Date : As soon as possible
  • Posting Date : 12 Sep 2023
  • Expiry Date : 11 Sep 2024

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
  • Supervise patients' exercise routines
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
  • Transport patients between care facilities
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals
  • Collect specimens
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations
  • Languages

    English

    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

How to Apply

By email

recruiting@northwood.ns.ca

Job Categories: Health Care. Job Types: Full-Time. Job expires in 348 days.

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