Health Care Aide

Make an Impact on Seniors Health!

SE Health RCWs are the best of the best. We provide care and independence to our residents, using a client- and family-centered approach that incorporates the most current research into practice. When you choose to join SE Health, you become part of a diverse and collaborative care team where you’ll apply your skills – and your heart – to provide services that support our residents to live and age well.

You’ll make a difference in their lives, and they’ll make a difference in yours!

• 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 lifelong learning. You'll benefit from our orientation, mentorship, and coaching programs. And our leadership team will support you to practice to full scope, to integrate the most current evidence into your practice, and is fully available to you 24/7 to support you in delivering the best possible care to your patients.
• 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 nursing skills to contribute and make an impact in different ways.
• Innovative:
  At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging. You’ll have the ability to be part of this research firsthand, to learn from it, and will be supported to integrate that research into your practice.

• Assist clients with activities of daily living, such as feeding, lifts and transfers, bathing, skin care, oral hygiene and toileting
• Perform delegated tasks for duties such as catheter care, suppositories, non-sterile dressings and mobilization routines for complex care clients
• Administer medication to clients and provide medication reminders, in accordance to established policy
• Plans, prepares and serves meals and shops for groceries
• Observes clients and their environments and report unsafe conditions and behavioral and physical changes
• Completes and maintains related records and documentation such as communication books and progress notes
• Working in group homes with individuals with developmental disabilities such as Spinal Cord Injury, Dementia and Down Syndrome
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Grade 12 completion
• Health Care Aide/Residential Care Aide certificate
• Food Safe Certificate
• Registration with BC Care Aide Association
• Class 4 BC Driver’s license and access to a vehicle is required (Monetary assistance provided to obtain class
  4)
• Up to date immunization record including a current TB test within 1 year.
• A satisfactory Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check issued in the past 12 months
• Current Standard First Aid & Level C CPR
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team, with excellent organizational skills to manage your schedule.
• Compassionate, respectful, and sincere manner, with ability to deal with conflict in a diplomatic and professional manner Effective problem-solving and conflict management skills.
• This is a physically demanding position and requires hand, arm and shoulder dexterity, sensory ability, lifting to a maximum of approximately fifty-five (55) pounds, walking, standing, bending, reaching, and frequent movement.

• Home Management skills
• Flexible working hours – able to work overnight, evening and weekends
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
• Ability to operate related equipment
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Experience with quadriplegics and behavioral…