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Cupar & District Nursing Home Inc., a 45 bed long term care facility located less than an hour northeast of Regina. Seeking CCA applicants for Relief CCA positions.
Job Summary: Provides personal care and activities of daily living for residents to encourage optimum level of functioning. Supports residents in meeting their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Qualifications: Continuing Care Assistant (CCA) certificate.
APPLICANTS WITHOUT THEIR CCA COURSE ARE WELCOME TO APPLY FOR CONSIDERATION, however must have at least a personal care module, TLR and some direct patient/resident care experience, as well as willing to successfully obtain their CCA certificate as per the CUPE Collective Agreement.
Must be available weekdays and weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
Specific Skills
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Collect specimens
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test