Nurse aide
Saint Elizabeth based in Red Deer, AB is inviting applications from suitable candidates for the position of Nurse aide. Saint Elizabeth is a leading social enterprise and one of the largest diversified home health organizations in Canada. We provide health care services across many areas of the health system, including home and community care, long-term care, acute care and primary care. Our customers include governments, regional health authorities, hospitals, the seniors’ living sector, community organizations and consumers. We have facilitated transformative solutions in the areas of aging, education, Indigenous health and end of life care. The candidates who will get selected for the vacancy will be required to start the work as soon as possible.
Job Description:
Employer’s Name: Saint Elizabeth
Position: Nurse aide
No of Vacancies: 3
Salary: 20.16 hourly for 40 hours per week
Employment Type: Permanent employment – Full time
Location: Red Deer, AB
Shifts: Day, Night, Weekend, To be determined
Work Setting: Work in employer’s/client’s home, Nursing home/home for the aged
Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Requirements:
Languages: Candidates must have knowledge of the English Language.
Education: The candidate should have standard educational qualification such as College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years or equivalent experience.
Experience: Candidates don’t need experience although having experience is an asset.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses: First Aid Certificate, CPR Certificate
Security and safety: Driver’s validity licence check, Immunization records
Transportation/travel information: Valid driver’s licence
Physical Requirements:
- The candidate should be physically demanding and required to perform repetitive tasks on frequent basis.
- The candidate should be willing to work in bending, crouching, kneeling, sitting, standing, walking position for extended periods of time.
Other Requirements:
- The candidate should have dependability, reliability, flexibility and interpersonal awareness.
- The candidate should have efficient interpersonal skills and excellent oral communication skills.
- The candidate should be initiative, judgemental and a good team player.
- The candidate should be organised and focused on the client.
Responsibilities:
- The candidate should supply and empty bed pans, serve meal trays and feed patients, weigh, lift, turn and position patients, make beds and maintain patients’ rooms, supervise patients’ exercise routines, bathe, dress and groom patients.
- The candidate should be able to deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments.
- The candidate should assist 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.
- The candidate should transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher, answer call signals, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort, administer first aid in emergency situations.
Benefits:
- The employees get financial benefits such as collective agreement.
- The employees get other long term benefits.
How to apply:
If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply (along with your resume) through below mentioned details.
By Email:
saint.elizabeth.h@gmail.com
We thank all the applicants for showing their interest and trust in us, however, only the most eligible candidates will be selected, and conducted for further procedure directly from employers, in between no charges/fees or original documents will be asked from any applicant. All the best!