Permanent full time
Make an Impact on People’s Lives; Join SE Health as a Personal Support Worker!
SE Health PSWs are the best of the best. We provide care, companionship, household management, and daily living support to clients in their homes. When you choose to join SE Health, you join a diverse and collaborative care team where you’ll apply your skills – and your heart – to provide services to a roster of clients in your community. You’ll apply a client centered approach to address clients’ physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual needs. You’ll make a difference in their lives, and they’ll make a difference in yours!
WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?
Competitive Compensation. Our Total Rewards package includes a competitive salary, group benefits, pension plan, and exclusive perks/discounts available only to SE Health staff.
Develop yourself with SE. We have education bursaries, Tuition Assistance Programs, continuing education, training, and professional development to support your life-long learning. You’ll benefit from our orientation and mentorship programs. Our clinical practice and nursing teams will support you with comprehensive care plans and modern models of care that will mean you’ll always be supported to provide the best possible care to your clients.
Grow your career. SE health is a large national organization with diverse healthcare business lines. You’ll have an opportunity- and will be supported – to do different types of roles in different locations if that is what you’re interested in. Or you can pivot to supporting or leadership positions where you can use your skills to contribute and make an impact in different ways.
Manage your life. At SE, you’ll have the flexibility to manage your schedule to balance your life. You’ll be supported with the time you need to meet the needs of your clients, meet your own needs, develop yourself and your career, and to be part of a team.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
• Supply and empty bed pans
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Supervise patients’ exercise routines
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• 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
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
BENEFITS
• Extended Health care and Dental plan
• Life insurance
• Mileage paid
• Paid travel time, between clients
• Pension plan
• Learning/training paid by employer
• Subsidized OPSWA memberships
• Paid time off (personal days, vacation)
• Wellness program
• Mobile device and 3 uniforms provided
REQUIREMENTS
Education
One of the following is required:
• Valid Certificate as a Personal Support Worker (PSW)
• RN or RPN Nursing student (2 clinical placements completed)
• Home Support Level 2 or level 3 from a recognized curriculum
• Valid Developmental Support Worker Certificate
• Foreign trained healthcare professional – Nurse or Physician
Experience
• Experience an asset
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
• CPR Certificate
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Criminal record check
• Driver’s validity licence check
• Immunization records
• Tuberculosis test
• Vulnerable Sector Check
Transportation/travel information
• Valid driver’s licence and own transportation is required.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking
• Weight handling
• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
Job Status: Permanent, full-time
Wage offered: $22.50/hour
Schedule: Various shifts. Day, evening, morning, weekends
Business address: 1505 Laperriere Avenue suite 400, Ottawa, ON K1Z 7T1, Canada
Language of work: English
Location of work: Ottawa, Ontario and surrounding areas. We are a community-based home care and visiting care agency. Some work will take place in our facilities, but you will primarily be working in our clients’ homes. Travel to various and sometimes rural locations is required.
How to apply
Please submit your cover letter and resume by email to careers@sehc.com.
To apply for this job email your details to jessierichards@sehc.com