Personal Support Worker (PSW)

Written By Melissa McInerney

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 activities of daily living. Support them to be 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:

  • Bathe, toilet, incontinence management, mouth care, dressing & grooming, hair and nail care, social interaction, assist with eating.

  • Communicate and work collaboratively with residents, team members, family members, supervisors

Cleaning:

  • Maintain the tidiness of the resident’s rooms by organizing closets & bedside tables, cleaning wheelchairs, commodes/urinals/bed pans, wash basins, carts etc.

  • Distribute clean linens and towels, change soiled bed linens

  • Follow manufacturer's guidelines for tub cleaning & disinfection

Nutritional Care:

  • Assist with feeding residents as per their care plan

  • Open cartons, cut food, place items within reach

  • Distribute food & fluids to the residents off the snack/ fluid cart

  • Provide fluids throughout each shift

Transferring & Repositioning:

  • Portering residents to dining rooms, bedrooms, activities

  • Empty garbage and linen bags from carts

  • Transfer residents using appropriate transfer device.

  • 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, continence, mouth care and meal/ fluid intake

  • Log repair or maintenance issues in the maintenance binder

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

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

General:

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

  • Employee must possess the physical ability to meet the duties and responsibilities of the job description.

    These describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this classification. This is 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.

Melissa McInerney