special care aide - nursing
Independent Living Nova Scotia
Job location: Halifax - NS, Nova Scotia
Job ID: #JP247-260623
Employer: Independent Living Nova Scotia
Job Category: Nursing
Vacancies: 2
Salary: 23.62/ hour
Posting date: May 15, 2025
Expiry date: November 14, 2025
Job details
- Location - Halifax, NS, B3H 4P2
- Work place information - On site
- Salary: 23.62 hourly / 30 to 40 hours per Week
- Terms of employment- Permanent employmentFull time
- Day, Evening, Morning, Night, On Call, Overtime, Shift, Weekend
- Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies- 2 vacancies
Languages
English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Various locations
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
- Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Collect specimens
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Apply Via Email- tina.williamson@ilns.ca
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate