JOB OPPORTUNITY

Goguen Residences specializes in residential care with a sound reputation in a community with ever growing needs for our specialized services. 

Each of our three residences provide a distinct service. One is designed for residents that need mental help support, one is designed for residents that require communication assistance support and one has residents that require nursing care. 

We are looking for a Personal Support Staff that is respectful, responsible, compassionate and caring, interested in making a difference in the lives of our residents and is willing to learn.  Your ideal working ethic must be one that includes hard work, a preference for a high level of teamwork and a passion health care excellence and having fun at work.

You will be working with vulnerable residents and you need to be comfortable working 

with people who have psychological and physical challenges 

The ideal candidate would have experience in the care of others, demonstrate common sense and a calm manner in dealing with disruptions and challenges. A high level of discretion is required and the person must be capable of building relationships and delivering personalized care.

We need someone that is comfortable in a family type environment that demonstrates great care for others.

Job Description

Support Staff

Key responsibility

The Support Staff will be responsible for offering quality of life services to residents by offering personal care services, responding to their needs and request for assistance, dealing with behaviors, maintaining their medical records and their personalized care plans, as well as assisting in delivering the nutritional program and participating in activities with the residents.

Performance objectives:

1. Personal Care Services

To provide personal and bedside care services to residents by ensuring daily guidance, attentive care and understanding, by following personal care plans, assisting with comfort and mobility needs and also assisting with ADLs as required.

2. Patient Type Care

To provide patient type care services to residents by following medical professional care guidelines and basic treatments, administer medication and apply limitations and restrictions as per recommendations.

3. Maintaining a pleasant and secure home

To ensure a pleasant, stable and secure home environment by responding immediately to calls from patients for assistance, ensuring proper response to needs and behaviors and demonstrating common sense and a calm manner dealing daily challenges.

To understand, adapt, accommodate and assist special care patients with mental challenges and/or temporary disability daily challenges by ensuring appropriate care and comfort, ensuring their safety and security and that of their colleagues, minimize the risk of accidents and adjust daily programs and activities as required.

4. Maintaining records

To document accurately the data for each resident file and share information from the previous shift, complete activities log, accidents, behavior reports as well as primary worker duties. 

5. Daily activities

To maintain residents mental and physical well being by assisting and encouraging residents to participate in exercise programs and daily scheduled activities, outings and drives.

6. Nutritional programs

To assist residents at meal times when needed and assist them with eating if necessary. Provide beverages and snacks at scheduled times.

7. Housekeeping

• To perform daily recommended housekeeping duties and chores such as replacing linens on beds, cleaning residents’ rooms, washrooms, replenish supplies and removing trash in order to ensure a fresh, clean and safe home environment free of obstacles and free of disease causing agents.