Residential Care Worker

Make an Impact on Seniors Health!

SE Health Care Aides are the best of the best. We provide care and independence to our residents, using a client- and family-centered approach that incorporates the most current research into practice. When you choose to join SE Health, you become part of a diverse and collaborative care team where you’ll apply your skills – and your heart – to provide services that support our residents to live and age well. You’ll make a difference in their lives, and they’ll make a difference in yours!

Job Responsibilities/duties

• Assist clients with activities of daily living, such as feeding, lifts and transfers, bathing, skin care, oral hygiene and toileting
• Perform delegated tasks for duties such as catheter care, suppositories, non-sterile dressings and mobilization routines for complex care clients
• Administer medication to clients and provide medication reminders, in accordance to established policy
• Plans, prepares and serves meals and shops for groceries
• Observes clients and their environments and report unsafe conditions and behavioral and physical changes
• Completes and maintains related records and documentation such as communication books and progress notes
• Performs other related duties as assigned
  
  

Wage: Starting at $27.92

Qualifications

• Grade 12 completion
• Health Care Aide/Residential Care Aide certificate
• Registration with BC Care Aide Association
• Class 5 BC Driver’s license and access to a vehicle (Preferred)(Class 4 Driver’s license is an asset)
• Up to date immunization record including a current TB test within 1 year.
• A satisfactory Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check issued in the past 90 days
• Current Standard First Aid & Level C CPR
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team, with excellent organizational skills to manage your schedule.
• Compassionate, respectful, and sincere manner, with ability to deal with conflict in a diplomatic and professional manner Effective problem-solving and conflict management skills.
• This is a physically demanding position and requires hand, arm and shoulder dexterity, sensory ability, lifting to a maximum of approximately fifty-five (55) pounds, walking, standing, bending, reaching, and frequent movement.
  
  

Knowledge & Abilities

• Home Management skills
• Flexible working hours – able to work overnight, evening and weekends
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
• Ability to operate related equipment
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Experience with quadriplegics and behavioral conditions such as Dementia & Autism would be an asset
  
  

About SE Health

At SE, we love what we do. Every day, we bring hope and happiness to clients, homes, and communities across Canada. We treat each person with dignity and love, like our own family; we build empathy; and we do the right thing. We are always inspired to make a difference. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we share knowledge, provide the best care, and help each client to realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. We are an inclusive workplace offering competitive pay, benefits, pension, and work life balance. We’re a great place to work, and we hope you’ll join our team.

In the interest of the health and safety of our patients/clients, employees, and greater good of public health, SE Health requires those that wish to work for this organization to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Fully vaccinated means a person has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and it has been 14 days since the last dose.

SE Health is committed to the success of all its employees. If you feel you need accommodations because of illness or disability, please do not hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] at your earliest convenience.