continuing care assistant

at  Dykeland Lodge

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: Experience an asset

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
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

SUPPORT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

• Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities
• Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities
• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

• 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