Health Care Aide

Job title: Health Care Aide

Job description: ARE YOU A HEALTHCARE AIDE LIVING IN HORSESHOE BAY AREA? Do you want to join Canada’s largest non-profit home care provider working one-on-one with clients in their home to focus your care and expertise? We are currently seeking Healthcare Workers to help support several of our clients on Bowen Island. Casual positions are available with flexible schedules and great work-life balance. Round trip travel by ferry will be compensated to travel to and from Bowen Island.

Why join our team?

• Competitive Compensation. Our Total Rewards package includes a competitive salary, group benefits, RRSP pension, 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.
• Paid travel time, between clients
• Mobile device and 3 uniforms provided

Position Summary:

Provides home support services to clients such as assisting with activities of daily living, performing delegated tasks for which transfer of function training has been completed, planning and preparing meals, and light housekeeping.

Position responsibilities:

Follow Care Plans and maintain accurate client records utilizing the appropriate documentation

• Maintain effective relationships with clients promoting physical and emotional independence
• Clear understanding of the accountability and expectations that are associated with transferable skills/delegated tasks
• Effectively communicate changes in the client condition to your supervisor, and maintain effective relationships with other team members
• Proactively identify, promote and seek to improve client safety as part of your everyday work, and seeks support from the Nurse Supervisor for responding to medical and ethical dilemmas

Qualification required:

• Internationally trained nurse/ Experience in Healthcare in Canada
• A current CPR and First Aid Certificate is required
• A current Criminal and Reference Check
• A current immunization record (tetanus, MMR, varicella) and negative TB test
• A working knowledge of assistive aids is required
• Availability to work days five times a week

• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal/written) and exercise good judgment is required
• Ability to perform lifting and bending when assisting clients may be required
• Ability to use technology for communication is required
• Equivalent education and experience/ training considered

About SE Health

At SE, we love what we do. Every day, we bring hope and happiness to clients, homes, and communities across Canada. We treat each person with dignity and love, like our own family; we build empathy; and we do the right thing. We are always inspired to make a difference. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we share knowledge, provide the best care, and help each client to realize their most meaningful goals for health and wellbeing. We are an inclusive workplace offering competitive pay, benefits, pension, and work life balance. We’re a great place to work, and we hope you’ll join our team.

In the interest of the health and safety of our patients/clients, employees, and greater good of public health, SE Health requires those that wish to work for this organization to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Fully vaccinated means a person has received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and it has been 14 days since the last dose.

SE Health is committed to the success of all its employees. If you feel you need accommodations because of illness or disability, please do not hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition team at at your earliest convenience. Please apply online

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