Personal Support Worker – Nursing Care

Work setting

• Home care and visiting care agency
• Remote location
• Rural area
• Urban area
• Various locations
• Work in employer's/client's home
• Relocation costs covered by employer
• Willing to relocate
• Hospital or home for the aged
• Hospital/medical facility or clinic
• Nursing home/home for the aged
• Public or community health centre
• Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
• Youth drop-in centre
• Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
• Group home

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Supply and empty bed pans
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• 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
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Driver's validity licence check
• Drug test

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking

Weight handling

• More than 45 kg (100 lbs)

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Disability benefits
• Health care plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement

Long term benefits

• Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

• Other benefits
• Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
• Parking available