Senior Health Care Aide

Focus on Caring is seeking a Senior Health Care Aide to provide compassionate palliative and personal care to clients in Calgary and surrounding area. This is a full-time, permanent role. Language of work is English. Pay is $20.00 per hour plus 4% vacation pay. Workers' compensation benefits are paid by the employer.

Responsibilities

• Administer palliative subcutaneous medications and pain medications as directed by physicians and Registered Nurses
• Provide comfort care including oral hygiene, sponge bathing, massage, and special treatments
• Perform post-mortem care
• Manage ostomy care: emptying and changing ostomy bags, assessing sites, reporting changes
• Manage catheter care: emptying and cleaning catheter bags, changing night/day bags, assessing insertion sites
• Perform bladder irrigation and intermittent catheterization
• Assess blood glucose with a glucometer and assist with insulin administration under RN guidance
• Perform wound care using a variety of dressings
• Perform PEG feeding and change insertion site dressings
• Administer suppositories and enemas as recommended by physicians
• Perform other duties consistent with the position To apply, click Apply to submit your application through the original job posting.