Job Number: 5089
Job Type: Temporary Part-Time
Vacancy Reason: Backfill

Temporary Contract Length: Up to 3 months
Location: 247 Franklin St N - Sunnyside Home
Number of Positions:1
Division: Community Services
Hours of Work: 46.5 hours biweekly, 0700-1500/1100-1900
Work Schedule:

- Week 1: Thurs, Fri, Sat
- Week 2: Sun, Tues, Wed
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Union: Unifor 1106
Grade: Unifor 1106 Grade 003
Salary Range: $25.14 -$26.67 per hour

Join the Team at Sunnyside Home

At Sunnyside Home, care is personal.

As the first long-term care home in Waterloo Region certified in The Butterfly Approach®, we are recognized for creating a warm, home-like workplace where relationships, emotional well-being, and resident choice come first.

Here, you'll be part of a compassionate and innovative team that is committed to meaningful connections, person-centred care, and making every day matter for residents and families.

If you're looking for more than just a job, and want to be part of a workplace where kindness, collaboration, and dignity are at the heart of the work, we'd love to hear from you.

The Region of Waterloo is a diverse and growing community committed to creating opportunities for current and future generations.

Waterloo Region is part of the Dish With One Spoon wampum, a treaty grounded in sharing, sustainability, and respect:

- Take only what we need
- Leave some for others
- Keep the dish clean

These principles continue to guide our commitment to reconciliation, inclusion, and community well-being

The Role

Works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to create a caring, person-centred, home-like environment where residents feel listened to and cared about. Provides housekeeping, dining room,



and support services for Sunnyside Home residents within a multi-disciplinary, resident-focused team environment.

Duties/Responsibilities

- Cleans, disinfects, and tidies resident rooms and bathrooms. Makes and changes beds. Stocks bathrooms with supplies.
- Assists with meal service. Sets dining tables. Portions beverages (e.g., protein supplements, specialty beverages) per resident diet plans. Provides choice selection of meals to residents and serves meals. Clears tables and cleans floors.
- Sorts, bags, and empties soiled laundry to hampers and laundry chute.
- Cleans and tidies utility room (e.g., cupboards) and home areas (e.g., lounges, communication centres, balconies, dining room, elevators) per schedule/as needed. Completes checklists and documents notes in logbook.
- Orders and monitors stock of housekeeping supplies to maintain quotas. Receives and checks supplies for WHMIS labels.
- Picks up/delivers continence products to home areas.
- Collects and disposes garbage and recyclables.
- Monitors home areas for spills. Responds to, cleans, and disinfects reported spills.
- Engages with residents, promotes resident participation, and participates with residents in programs and activities.
- Observes and communicates changes in residents' physical and emotional conditions to resident care staff.



Responds to call bells/resident requests and provides assistance/seeks assistance for residents as required. Assists resident care staff with spotting and transfers as needed.
- Responds promptly to resident call lights and participates in conducting resident rounds.
- Monitors, cleans, and maintains a housekeeping cart and equipment, and contacts Facilities or supervisor for repairs. Reports safety issues/risks immediately and takes appropriate action.
- Interacts with staff, residents, families, and visitors to respond to general questions, discuss operational needs/logistics, and request supplies or services. Contacts appropriate staff for assistance as needed.
- Keeps knowledge current through in-service training and communications. Demonstrates/explains work procedures to help train volunteers and/or new staff as directed.
- Participates in team meetings and provides input to improve work procedures.
- Performs related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

- Ability to read and understand policies, procedures, and instructions (e.g., resident diet plans, resident information, work assignments, safety notices, safety data sheets, product labels), and basic writing and math skills, normally acquired through a Grade 12 education and training in safe food handling practices, plus related experience working in a health care and/or long-term care setting.
- Must have a current Safe Food Handling Certificate.
- Knowledge of and ability to comply with policies, procedures, guidelines, and related legislation (e.g., health and safety, privacy).
- Must have a tuberculosis (TB) test and required immunization(s).
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