Personal Support Worker (PSW)

At Watford Quality Care Centre we’re all about Making People’s Lives Better for our residents, their families, and our employees. Join an exceptional group of diverse, caring, and passionate people who are inspired to make a difference in their own lives and are dedicated to delivering an experience that is personalized, memorable and feels like home.

Position Overview

Provide personal care to residents and help them with all individual daily care to keep them independent as long as possible; and maintain quality of life for residents by providing a clean, healthy, safe environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

Personal care provided in a dignified manner to residents:

• Bath, toilet, incontinence management, mouth care, dress, shave hair and nail care, social interaction, feed

• Communicate and try to obtain cooperation from residents, co-workers, family members, supervisors

Cleaning:

• Maintain the tidiness of the resident rooms by straightening closets & bedside tables, clean wheelchairs, catheter bags, commodes/urinals/bed pans, wash basins, care carts

• Distribute clean linens and towels, change soiled bed liners

• Follow manufacturer's guidelines for tub cleaning & disinfection

Nutritional Care:

• Feed and/or assist with feeding residents as per care plan

• Open cartons, cut food, place items within reach

• Push the snack cart & distribute food & fluids to the residents

• Provide fluids throughout each shift

Transferring & Repositioning:

• Portering residents to dining rooms, bedrooms, activities

• Empty garbage and linen bags from care carts to housekeeping cart

• Transfer residents from bed to wheel chair etc.

• Use mechanical lifts to transfer residents from bed/chair/toilet

• Repositioning residents in bed using transfer sheets

• Application and removal of lift slings when using mechanical lifts

Charting and Reporting:

• Documentation on Point Click Care, each shift to reflect ADL, behaviours, contingency, & mouth care and meals

• Log repair or maintenance issues in the maintenance binder

• Report to Team Leader changes, concerns, or resident situation that may occur during the shift

Mechanical lift safe start up sheets must be completed prior to equipment use

General:

• Incumbents must keep up-to-date on all relevant legislation, collective bargaining agreements, WQCC Policies and Procedures, etc. ensuring that these are implemented as prescribed

• Incumbents must possess the physical ability to meet the duties and responsibilities of the job description and/or the requirements identified within the position's Physical Demands Analysis

These describe the general nature and level of work being performed by incumbents in this classification. They are not an exhaustive list of all job duties in the classification. Other duties may be assigned.

Supervision Requirements
Direct Supervision: Not applicable
Indirect Supervision: Not applicable
Functional Authority: Not applicable

Qualifications

Minimum Formal Education:

• Personal Support Worker Certificate

Experience:

• None

Accommodations are available upon request in relation to the materials or processes to be used in the assessment/selection process.

Apply

Please complete the form below as well as send your resumes to
owallis@watfordqualitycare.ca and tmcgill@watfordqualitycare.ca.