Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $29.83 - $29.83 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
We are hiring a Casual Mental Health Care Worker, Inpatient Mental Health Services to join our team in Abbotsford, B.C.
We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.
A career with Fraser Health will offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team of professionals in a dynamic and rewarding health care environment. We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Confirm you are legally entitled to work in Canada

• Provides personal care and/or assists patients with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, prosthetics and elimination.
• Assists patients in making beds, organizing personal belongings, personal laundry as assists patients in retrieving personal care supplies from storage area as required.
• Assists patients with meals by serving and collecting meal trays; monitors patient safety and assists with feeding of designated patients.
• Weighs patients, monitors patients’ nutritional/fluid intake and elimination and collects specimens as directed. Charts information and reports problems and/or changes to designated nursing staff.
• Provides one on one personal care and observation of designated patients as directed by the Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RN/RPN).
• Assists nursing staff with care of patients in seclusion rooms as directed by the RN/RPN including assisting with activities of daily living and delivering food.
• Reports observations of patients’ conditions to designated nursing staff in accordance with established procedures/practices and records observations on the patient health care record.
• Participates in team meetings and ward rounds as directed and provides feedback on observations related to patient care provided for designated patients.
• As directed by the RN/RPN or Occupational Therapist, facilitates patients’ participation in psychosocial rehabilitation activities by methods such as setting schedules and participating in scheduled individual and group activities.
• Escorts patients off unit for treatment or diagnostic procedures; transports patients utilizing mechanical aids such as wheelchairs and/or stretchers.
• Accompanies patients to offsite appointments to provide assistance as required.
• Participates in orientating patients, families, staff, volunteers, and students to the unit by familiarizing them with the layout of the unit, patient rooms and unit routines
• Assists care team without routine search of rooms and client belongings in order to maintain unit safety.
• Assists patients with retrieval/storage and/or relocation of personal effects to different rooms within the unit.
• Participates in quality improvement activities as assigned by providing input and feedback on department initiatives.
• Performs other related duties as assigned