Special Care Aide - Nursing Job

Company Name: Embassy West Senior Living
Job Position: Special Care Aide - Nursing
Wage Rate: 19.50 to 22.75 hourly (To be negotiated)
Hours per Week: 40 hours
Location: Ottawa, ONK1Z 7L8 (On site)
Type of Employment: Permanent Employment, Full-time
Employment Date: As soon as possible
Education Required: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Experience Required: 1 to less than 7 months of experience

Responsibilities
Tasks
• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
• Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Perform other duties related to personal care
• Supply and empty bed pans
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• 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
• Collect specimens
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• Provide nursing care

Benefits
Health benefits
• Dental plan
• Health care plan
• Paramedical services coverage
• Vision care benefits

Financial benefits
• As per collective agreement
• Life insurance

We are Equal Opportunity Employer that recruit and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.