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About the Role
The caregiver supports nursing staff by providing personal care, housekeeping, and communication, requiring a diploma and experience in healthcare.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Provide housekeeping and laundry services for residents
- Assist residents with bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Support nursing staff with manual handling of residents
- Maintain cleanliness and tidiness of patient rooms
- Ensure rooms are stocked with appropriate supplies
- Participate in resident social activities
- Communicate with coworkers and multidisciplinary team
- Attend training sessions offered by the facility
- Adhere to emergency preparedness and fire safety policies
Requirements
- Support residents with personal care including bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Assist with housekeeping and laundry services
- Prepare food and run errands for residents
- Maintain a safe and clean patient environment
- Participate in residents' social activities
- Comply with OSH and infection control policies
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Overview
- The patient aide will work to support the nursing staff to provide for the everyday needs of the residents and their families.
Responsibilities
- Supports residents and their families by providing housekeeping and laundry services; preparing food, running errands.
- Assists residents by providing personal services, such as bathing, dressing and grooming.
- Assists nurses in manual handling of residents and with bathing.
- Under the supervision and guidance of nurses and therapists plays with children where appropriate.
- Maintains a safe, secure and healthy patient environment by ensuring room is clean and tidy.
- Supports the nursing staff by running errands where appropriate.
- Responsible for ensuring rooms are stocked with appropriate supplies.
- Assists residents and nurses on external trips.
- Participates in residents' social activities.
- Communicates with a range of people on a range of matters.
- Communicates appropriately and clearly to coworkers and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Communicates the mission, vision and values of the facility.
Requirements
- Develops own skills and knowledge.
- Recognizes the necessity to continuously develop skills and acquire additional knowledge appropriate to the position.
- Attends training sessions offered by long term care.
- Dresses appropriately to the expectations of the specific work areas and Occupational Health and Safety Policy.
- Maintains confidentiality of all information in accordance with long term care policy.
- Participates as a valued team member, promoting and contributing to a supportive team environment.
- Attends meetings as requested.
- Maintains quality in own work.
- Adheres to the requirements of the Environment Health and Safety Management System.
- Adheres to the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Guidelines and Infection Control Guidelines.
- Understands and adheres to emergency preparedness, fire safety and code policies/plans.
- Reports shortfall of supplies to registered nurse.
Additional Duties
- Reports and documents any missing items to registered nurse.
- Supports equality and value diversity.
- Challenge bias, prejudice and intolerance if appropriate or brings it to the attention of a manager.
- Aware of the impact of own behaviors on others.
- Comply with all OSH and infection control policies, standards and procedures and cooperate with hospital management to comply those requirements.
- Work accordance with the documented OSH procedures and instructions, specific responsibilities.
- Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures.
- Notifying OSH Hazards, incidents, Near misses and issues and assistance with the preparation of risk assessments, incident reports.
- Comply with Waste management procedures and policies.
- Attend applicable OSH/Infection control training programs, mock drills and awareness programs.
- Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
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