Our client is a private home care center located in the heart of Halifax and is currently seeking an experienced Personal Care Assistant to join our care team. As a Personal Care Assistant, you will provide client personal care to residents in accordance with their care plans in order to meet the individual residents’ needs.

Daily tasks assigned by the Charge Nurse (supervisor):

- Assist residents with hygiene and daily living activities including bathing, dressing, oral care, skin care, positioning in bed, feeding, and transferring.
- Assist in admission and in-house transfers as directed by the charge nurse.
- Answer resident call bells.
- Keep resident rooms tidy and organized.
- Clean and make beds, strip beds and room of discharged residents.




- Measure and record intake and outputs.
- Share in observing changes in resident’s condition and report observations to immediate supervisor.

Requirements

Standard First Aid or Basic Life Support – CPR

Successful completion of CCA/PCW course

Alzheimer course preferred

Experience in a similar setting is considered an asset

Effective communication, both written and verbal in English

Personal care of residents including restorative care and the ability to lift up to 50lbs

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📌 Personal Care Assistant (PCA) (Halifax Regional Municipality)
🏢 Global Healthcare Solutions
📍 Halifax Regional Municipality