Full-Time HEALTH CARE AIDE IN WINNIPEG
Job Description
You can make a difference in your community while being rewarded with exciting career opportunities, competitive compensation, and industry leading clinical and administrative support. Joining Revera means working for a company that is one of Canada’s largest home care providers serving more than 25,000 clients every week in their homes, in the community and through corporate health and wellness services.
The Certified Health Care Aide is an unregulated health care employee, trained to provide personal care and related services in the facilities and in the home. S/he functions under the direction, instruction and supervision of the Clinical Supervisor or Field Supervisor.
By following the Care Plan and / or Assignment Form which has been completed by the Clinical Supervisor, the Aide provides the following:
Helps the client to maintain good personal hygiene;
Assists in maintaining a healthful, safe environment;
Plans and prepares nutritious meals;
Markets when instructed to do so by the Supervisor;
Assists the client with ambulation;
Assists with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and approved and supervised by the nurse;
Assists as needed with the rehabilitative processes;
Encourages the client to become as independent as possible according to the nursing care plan;
Attempts to promote client’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest;
Gives simple emotional and psychological support to the client and other members of the family;
Establishes a relationship with client and family which transmits trust and confidentiality;
Prepares a report of his / her visit on the day it is performed and incorporates same into the clinical record weekly;
Reports any change in the client’s mental or physical condition or in his home situation to his / her immediate supervisor, the staff nurse or to the aide supervisor;
Carries out his / her assignment as instructed by the Supervisor and reports to the nurse when she is unable to do so;
Works with personnel of other agencies involved in the client’s care as directed by the Supervisor;
Performs routine housekeeping tasks as related to a safe and comfortable environment for the client, as instructed;
Maintains compliance with facilities and Revera Health Services standards for high quality provision of care;
Other duties are assigned