Healthcare professional prepared to bring compassion and efficiency to caregiving roles. Good working knowledge of providing personal care and emotional support, ensuring client comfort and safety. Known for strong collaboration with healthcare teams and adaptability to meet client needs. Skilled in managing diverse care plans and building trust with clients and their families.
• Built strong relationship with clients with mental and developmental disabilities (aged 40-86) to deliver emotional support and companionship
• Engaged patients in meaningful conversations and socialization activities while providing personal care assistance.
• Used taught skills to help de-escalate and prevent clients from harming themselves or others
• Created daily activities for clients to improve their overall well-being
• Did thorough housekeeping, ran errands, managed laundry and did weekly grocery shopping.
• Prepares, administers, and documents medications, in accordance with established policy.
• Assists clients and performs activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, skin care, oral hygiene, hair care, toileting, bowel care. Observes and monitors the clients and their environment each shift, and reports physical, cognitive, or behavioral changes, to the manager.
• Follows the mealtime guidelines set up and outlined by the registered dietician nutritionist by preparing, cooking, feeding, administering, noting changes in appetite and/or food preferences, and storage of food.
• Accompanies and assists clients on outings such as appointments, shopping, vocational and leisure activities, and arranges transportation to and from these activities.
• Identifies and reports all potential safety hazards and ongoing maintenance concerns to the Manager.
• Performs housekeeping duties such as sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, washing dishes, completing general laundry, and garbage/recycling collection and disposal.
• Casual awake overnight.
· Standard FIRST AID & CPR/AED Allison Courses
· Naloxone training- St. Paul’s Foundation
· Assisted Living Naloxone Training
· Suicide Prevention Training
· Workplace Bullying and Harassment –Meeting Employer Requirements
· Food Safe
· Community Living BC Privacy and Information Management Course
· FOIPPA Foundations Course (Privacy and Access Fundamentals)
· MANDT Training (Crisis-Intervention)
· Non-Violent Crisis Intervention certificate, Opioid Crisis |CPD
· Leadership and Management Development Program-
· MS Office: Microsoft Word, MS PowerPoint, Advanced Excel, MS Outlook