Health Care Assistant, Long Term Care-Baillie House Ridge Meadows Hospital -Maple Ridge

Are you someone who has a real passion for serving others?

Are you a registered Health Care Assistant looking to

showcase your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a new and dynamic environment? If you've answered yes to these questions, then we want you to keep reading!

We are currently have an exicting oppoptunity  for a Relief Part Time Health Care Assistant at   Baille House-Ridge Meadows Hospital located  in Maple Ridge, B.C. You will work in cooperation with the experience interprofessional care team, and follow established care plans and person-centered care.

Take this opportunity to:

• Observe and report patient progress, assist patients with meals and transport patients as required.
• Provide personal care to patients under the direction of a professional nurse, Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse and Nurse Practitioner.

• Perform a variety of related general duties such as answering the phone, maintaining storage areas, ordering supplies through stores, transporting specimens, maintaining and locating inventory of equipment, and maintaining tidy patient rooms and patient care areas.

To join our team, you will have:

• Completion of grade 10 and graduated from a recognized Health Care Assistant program
• Food Safe Level 1 Certificate
• Registration with the BC Care Aide & Community Health Worker Registry (please include your registration number on your application)

Come work with us! 

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

In accordance with the Mission and Values of Fraser Health, the Health Care Assistant, Residential Care works collaboratively and in partnership with the interdisciplinary team in the provision of person-centered care to diverse populations promoting resident/client choices, individualized routines, resident/client and family involvement in care decisions and continuity and consistency of care.

Following an established, individualized care plan, the Health Care Assistant provides person-centered care by assisting residents/clients in activities of daily living. Encourages and assists as necessary with toileting, bathing, skin care, grooming, dressing and personal laundry. Participates, as a member of and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, in the organization and implementation of established leisure activities as outlined in the care plan; encourages resident/client participation, within the resident's/client's abilities and informs residents/clients, families and volunteers of daily plans. Makes tea, coffee, toast, sandwiches and assists residents/clients who require help with their dining experience.

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Ability to teach.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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