Continuing Care Assistant (NOC # 33102) Job

Dykeland Lodge is a home-like long term care facility located in beautiful Windsor, Nova Scotia. We are committed to adding life to years by providing quality, compassionate, resident-centered care by a dedicated, competent and valued team.

- Job title: Continuing Care Assistant (NOC # 33102)

- Terms of employment: Permanent & Full-Time Position

- Wage: $18.73 - $24.0966 / hour

- Hour: 40 Hours / week

- Vacancy(s): 7

- Benefits: Vacation – Pay at 4% of regular hours paid

- Comprehensive Package for qualified employees (Medical, Dental, Vision)

- Work Location: 124 Cottage St, Windsor, NS B0N 2T0

- Job Description: Under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse, CCA assists all residents in accordance with their care plans and activities of daily living.

- Key Duties and Responsibilities:

 Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients' exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
 Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients' status and document patient care on charts; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
 Administer, in emergency situations, first aid to injured or ill individuals within the scope of competencies
 Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
 Carry messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
 Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
 Maintain inventory of supplies
 May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
 May transport patients between care facilities.

- Languages: English

- Requirement:
- Standard First Aid or Basic Life Support- CPR/Choking Adult

- Education Preferred: Completion of secondary High School

- Successful completion of CCA/PCW course
- Standard First Aid or Basic Life Support- CPR/Choking Adult
-Experience in long term care or similar environment is considered an asset
-Alzheimer's Disease Course preferred
-Will hire PCW working towards CCA Certification once Clinical Placement has begun
-Will accept RN, LPN and CCA students

- Experience: Experience an asset

- On site: Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

- Flexible work shift: Ability to work 8-hr and/or 12-hr shifts (days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays included)

- Work setting: Rural area, Nursing home/home for the aged

- Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
Continuing Care Assistant Certification, First Aid Certificate

- Additional information

Security and safety
Criminal record check
Adult Abuse Registry check

Transportation/travel information
Own transportation
- 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

- Weight handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

- Personal suitability: Client focus, Dependability, Efficient interpersonal skills, Excellent oral , communication, Flexibility, Initiative, Interpersonal awareness, Judgement, Organized, Reliability, Team player

- How to apply: Email: *To apply, please send your Cover Letter and Resume to Kim Hillier at [email protected]

** Dykeland Lodge hires on the basis of merit and is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

Dykeland Lodge hires on the basis of merit and is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.