Gradatim Retirement Home is hiring
Personal Support Worker – Nursing Care with LMIA

Languages

• English

Education

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
• or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience an asset

On site

• Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work setting

• Nursing home/home for the aged

Tasks

• 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
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Patience