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- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience level
- Mid-level · 2+ years
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
Job summary
The Senior Health Care Aide provides compassionate palliative and personal care to clients, including medication administration and specialized medical treatments. Responsibilities also include managing ostomy and catheter care, wound care, and assisting with daily hygiene and comfort needs.
Job details
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.
What you’ll do
The Senior Health Care Aide provides compassionate palliative and personal care to clients, including medication administration and specialized medical treatments. Responsibilities also include managing ostomy and catheter care, wound care, and assisting with daily hygiene and comfort needs.
Requirements
The candidate must be capable of performing clinical tasks such as administering medications, managing medical devices, and providing specialized nursing support. The role requires a professional who can follow physician and Registered Nurse directives in a home care setting.
Benefits
- Workers' compensation benefits
- Vacation pay
Listed skills
- Personal Care · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Palliative care
- Personal care
- Subcutaneous medication administration
- Ostomy care
- Catheter care
- Bladder irrigation
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Insulin administration
- Wound care
- PEG feeding
- Suppository administration
- Enema administration
- Post-mortem care
- Oral hygiene
- Sponge bathing
- Massage
- Enemas
- Post-Mortem Care
- Oral Hygiene
- Compassion
- Bladder Irrigation
- Blood Sugar
- Glucose Meters
- English Language
- Stoma (Medicine)
- Palliative Care
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
- Personal Care
- Workers' Compensation
- Wound Care
- Wound Dressing
Job areas
- Healthcare
- Social Services
- Health Care Aide
- Home Health Aide
- Home-based Personal Care Workers
- Home Health Aides
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides