Personal Support Worker - Casual - Temiskaming Hospital - New Liskeard, ON
Northern College Community Employment Services
Occasionnel / Temporaire • Temiskaming Shores Région
The Personal Support Worker is responsible for the daily care of medically and clinically stable patients as determined by the nurse for appropriateness of each client situation.
Affiliation: Union - CUPE 904
Rate of Pay: $29.233 - $29.909
Hours of Work:
Combination of 4 hour / 8 hour / 12 hour shifts. Applicant must have availability to work days, evenings, and nights on weekdays and weekends.
Mandatory Requirements:
- Certificate for Personal Support Worker, or equivalent is required
- BCLS certificate required
- Must possess the following:
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent work record, including attendance
- Commitment to ensure personal safety and the safety of fellow works, patients, volunteers, and visitors
Assets:
- Oral and written proficiency in both official languages
- Recent healthcare, more specifically Hospital, experience
- Completion of the Gerontology course
Responsibilities:
- Providing care and assistance to patients with routine activities of living. This will occur following an assessment by the registered healthcare professional, of each client’s situation and condition, the activity and associated risk, and the environmental supports
- Following the established plan of care, observing and reporting any substantial findings and/or changes in patient behavior to the appropriate registered member of the healthcare team
- Assisting or providing total personal care such as dressing, toileting, bathing, grooming and perineal care
- Assisting with meals
- Assisting with mobilization, which includes ambulation, positioning and transferring including the use of mechanical lifts
- Assisting with social, therapeutic and recreational activities
- Assisting nursing staffs by answering call bells
- Charting on all care provided
- Updating transfer codes weekly at bedside and in Meditech Expanse
Please Apply To:
Human Resources Department
Temiskaming Hospital
421 Shepherdson Rd.
New Liskeard, ON P0J 1P0
Email: careers@temiskaming-hospital.com
Temiskaming Hospital thanks all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
We are committed to championing accessibility, diversity and equal opportunity. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process provided the applicant has met bona-fide requirements for the open position. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.
L'emploi expire: 2024-09-23