Overview

Green Umbrella Senior Care is looking for a Personal Support Worker – Nursing Care  to join our team. As a Personal Support Worker – Nursing Care, you will work one-on-one with seniors in their homes helping to promote independence and allowing them the choice to live life on their terms.

 

Permanent, Full-time, $25 per hour; 30-40 hours per week. Shifts could be scheduled anytime between 7:30AM and 12AM.

 

Duties & 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;

·      Provide companionship and care.

 

Requirements:

 

·      Health Care Aide Certificate/HCA Certificate or 2+ years home care experience is required;

·      Equivalent Foreign LPN/RN designation may be considered;

·      English language ability is required;

·      Driver’s licence and a car is an asset.

 

How to Apply:

*Please do not call or apply in person.

Please email resume to:

 

Info@greenumbrellaseniorcare.ca

 

OR

 

Mail resume to:

211-3030 Lincoln Avenue

Coquitlam, B.C.

V3B 6B4

 

*Please confirm in your resume that you are legally authorized to work in Canada (i.e., either a permanent resident, a citizen of Canada or a refugee claimant with a valid work permit).