Senior Health Care Aide Full Time NEW

Job Duties:
 Administering palliative subcutaneous medications;
 Providing comfort to palliative clients by administering pain medications, providing oral hygiene,
sponge bathing, massage, and special treatments as recommended by physicians and Registered
Nurses;
 Performing post-mortem care;
 Emptying and changing ostomy bags, assessing and treating ostomy sites, and reporting changes
to Registered Nurses;
 Emptying and cleaning catheter bags, changing to night / day bags, and cleaning and assessing
insertion sites;
 Performing bladder irrigation for clients with indwelling catheters and intermittent
catheterization;
 Assessing blood glucose with glucometer and performing first-aid for hypoglycemia and
hyperglycemia with Registered Nurse’s guidance and assisting with or administering insulin
injections;
 Performing wound care using a variety of wound dressings;
 Performing Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) feeding and changing insertion site
dressings;
 Administering suppository and Fleet enema as needed for constipation as recommended by
Physicians and under the supervision of Registered Nurses; and
 Performing other duties as required and consistent with the position.
Terms of Employment:
 Full-time, permanent.
Language of Work:
 English.
Wage:

 Rate of pay is $20.00 per hour plus 4% vacation pay.
Benefits:
 Workers’ compensation benefits paid by employer.
 Enrolment in employer’s Group Benefits Plan which includes extended health insurance, dental,
and life insurance (premiums paid 50/50).
Work hours:
 Work is scheduled by shift, representing full-time employment (min. 30 hours per week).
 Work may be straight hours and live-in shifts, which require the caregiver to stay in the clients
home overnight.
Contact information:
 Focus on Caring
 Attention: Carla Amthor
 P: (403) 264-3839
 F: (403) 237-7666
 E: [email protected]
Skills Requirements:
 Minimum of two years of full-time work experience as a Senior Health Care Aide or in a similar
position evidenced by independent and verifiable documentation (e.g. employment verification
letter(s), etc.).
 This experience must include:
o Palliative care including end of life support;
o Acute care, including by not limited to catheter, ostomy, post-mortem, tube-feeding and
wound care;
o Personal care and all related support for clients in their own residences, including by not
limited to bed bath, shower assist, personal hygiene, vital signs monitoring, medication
administration and charting communication with the employer;
o Care plan delivery as per supervisory Registered Nurse at the employer; and
o Working with clients with Dementia and Alzheimer.
 Minimum of a health care aide college or private institutional program or a college program in
care of the elderly, care of persons with disabilities, convalescent care or in a related field and
supervised practical training.
 CPR training certificate issued within the last 12 months.
 Criminal record check(s) issued within the last 12 months.