Your Opportunity:

Sedgewick Community Health Centre is looking to welcome a new Home Care Aide to its Home Care Team supporting the Flagstaff County Area. As a Home Care Aide and team member, you will demonstrate genuine interest and respect for our clients and utilize your knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide direct client-centered care. Within the Home Care Interdisciplinary Team, the Home Care Aide is responsible for providing personal care and assisting with activities of daily living within the client’s authorized plan of care. The shifts for this position are 6.0 - 7.75 hours, days, evenings and weekends. Flexibility is required as this is shift work. Located in east central Alberta, the County of Flagstaff offers beautiful big open spaces, salt-of-the-earth resilient folks and the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community. Sedgewick is a close-knit community that takes pride in what they have built over the past 100 years. The town boasts a large recreational facility, housing hockey and curling rinks, a bowling alley and a library, as well as ball diamonds and a racetrack. Together with the Sedgewick Golf Course, these facilities, make Sedgewick a popular sports destination. Sedgewick Lake Park is a popular camping, picnicking and bird-watching destination. The community is also offering several financial incentives for new residents who are looking to make Sedgewick their home. Check out more here: https://sedgewick.ca/incentives/ Farmer’s Markets, small-town rodeos, artisan beer brewing and summer festivals are the perfect way to spend your downtime.

Description:

As a Health Care Aide (HCA), you will work as a collaborative member of the multi-disciplinary team providing personal assistance including supporting activities of daily living and support services to patients (clients, residents) who require short-term assistance or ongoing support, in accordance with the patient care plan and facility policies and procedures. In this position you will work closely with patients, families, and caregivers spanning the continuum of care in home, community or health care facilities assisting nurses with the provision of routine care to meet patients' hygiene, nutrition, mobility, recreation and safety needs, assisting with organized activities or programs and observing and reporting on a patient's mood, health, and wellbeing. Working under a regulated health professional you will be assisting in the maintenance of a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors, and maintaining effective communication with patients and health professionals.