Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $29.83 - $29.83 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
We are hiring a Relief Full Time Mental Health Care Worker, Mental Health & Substance Use Services, Timber Creek to join our team in Surrey, 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

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

• Provides personal care and/or assists clients with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, prosthetics and elimination.
• Assists clients in making beds, personal laundry, organizing personal belongings and in assisting them in retrieving personal care supplies from storage area as required.
• Monitors client safety and assists with feeding of designated clients.
• Weighs clients, monitors clients’ 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 clients as directed by the Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RN/RPN).
• Assists nursing staff with care of clients in seclusion rooms as directed by the RN/RPN including assisting with activities of daily living and delivering food.
• Reports observations of clients’ conditions to designated nursing staff in accordance with established procedures/practices and records observations on the client health care record.
• Participates in team meetings and ward rounds as directed and provides feedback on observations related to client care provided for designated clients.
• As directed by the RN/RPN or Occupational Therapist, facilitates clients’ participation in psychosocial rehabilitation activities by methods such as setting schedules and participating in scheduled individual and group activities.
• Escorts clients off unit for treatment or diagnostic procedures; transports clients utilizing mechanical aids such as wheelchairs and/or stretchers.
• Transports/escorts clients to offsite appointments/services by operating a passenger vehicle. Books client trips, alters schedules, arranges time for pickup and dropping off clients.
• Participates in orientating clients, families, staff, volunteers, and students to the unit by familiarizing them with the layout of the unit, client rooms and unit routines.
• Assists care team with routine search of rooms and client belongings in order to maintain unit safety.
• Assists clients 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