Health Care Aide Personal Care Home

Posting End Date: December 26, 2025
Anticipated Start Date: ASAP
Anticipated Shift: Eve
Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We’re united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

Faites progresser votre carrière dans la Région sanitaire de Winnipeg! Notre équipe offre une gamme étendue de services de soins de santé par le biais d’un réseau intégré de sites, de services et d’organismes. Nous sommes unis par un engagement commun en faveur de l’excellence et de l’équité des soins de santé.

Health Care Aide
Reports to the Director of Care or designate. Take direction for daily assignment from the unit nurse.

ROTATION

Wednesday, Saturday
WEEK #2: Sunday, Friday

Under the direction of the Director of Care or designate, the Health Care Aide performs duties as assigned within Golden Links Lodge Nursing Department. Works under the direction and supervision of Unit Nurse or designate performing assigned duties related to the care of Residents or other duties when requested. Ensures all safety and other requirements are maintained, including Manitoba Health Standards.
Works within the framework of Golden Links Lodge’s Mission, Vision & Values, and in accordance with its policies and procedures.
Respects Residents Rights at all times.

a) Recognized Health Care Aide Certificate required or completed two years of accepted registered nursing education program.

a) One year previous experience as a Health Care Aide preferred.
b) Experience in personal care home setting preferred.

Personal :
~ Able to carry out duties in a professional manner, working under minimum or no supervision, and in compliance with confidentiality of GLL and its Residents.

b) Physical and mental health to meet the requirements of the position.
c) Ability to speak, read, write and comprehend fluent English is required.
e) Sincere interest in working with the elderly, and being part of interdisciplinary team to meet the needs of Residents. Ability to adapt to changing needs of the Residents.
f) Good organizational skills with ability to adapt to changing needs and requirements of the Residents.
h) All hires require a Criminal Record and Adult Abuse Registry Check.

The Health care Aide will assist Residents with all activities of daily living based on the Resident’s individual Care Plan. 1.0 Maintains and promotes hygiene/skin integrity by:
Giving or assisting the Resident with tub bath, shower or bed bath. Documents water temperature as required.
Providing skin, hair, nail and dental hygiene.
~ Dressing Residents or assisting Residents to dress. Respects Residents’ choices.

Monitoring Residents’ skin for breakdown, and reporting concerns to the nurse.

~ Transferring, positioning, or ambulating Residents according to GLL Safe Resident Handling and Movement policy. Operates mechanical lifts according to policy.
Planning for adequate sleep, rest and relaxation.

~ Maintains and promotes nutrition by:

Assisting Residents with meals and feeding them as necessary.
Distributing meals for Residents who do not eat in the dining room and assisting as required.
Making meal times a social time. Keeps conversation Resident-focused.
Serving water, juice and between meal nourishments to Residents, and assisting them as required.

Toileting residents according to Care Plan.
Utilizing designated incontinent care products properly.
Appling urinary condoms, emptying urinary and colostomy bags as directed by the unit nurse or according to the Care Plan.

Ensuring Residents can reach the call bell at all times.
Identifying Residents at risk to fall and reporting same to unit nurse.
Following principles of body mechanics and routine practices for prevention of infection, including hand hygiene.
Reporting safety hazards and /or malfunctioning equipment to unit nurse or maintenance
Using appropriate safe Resident handling/lifting techniques.
Completes restraint monitoring tool as required.

1.5 Assists the nurse by:
Weighing Residents as per facility policy and Manitoba Health Standards.
Providing emotional and physical support to Residents, including the dying.
Providing care of the body after death.

• Assisting with recreational programs as requested.
• Assisting with admissions, discharges and transfers.

1.6 Participates in infection control and preventative maintenance programs by:
Cleaning equipment, wheelchairs, commodes, bedpans, urinals, and mechanical lifts.
Ensuring Residents’ personal clothing, after pockets have been emptied, is sent to the laundry in the appropriate bags. Respects Resident’s belongings at all times. 1.7 Transports Residents as required or requested – to meals, recreation activities, hairdresser, church services, etc.

1.8 Participates in the education of students, new staff or agency personnel as requested.

1.9 Documents care delivery on appropriate records or as directed by the nurse.

II Resident Care / Management

The Health Care Aide will:
Priorize care based on Residents’ needs.
Report changes in resident health status to the unit nurse.
Support the interdisciplinary team care plan development and review.
Accept direction from unit nurse or designate

Performs assigned clerical duties, answers telephones.
Works in accordance with GLL and departmental policies and standards.
Maintains Resident and GLL privacy and confidentiality at all times. Compliant with Protection for Persons In Care legislation.
The Health Care Aide will conduct herself/himself in a manner consistent with GLL Respectful Workplace and Code of Conduct policies by:
Communicating in a polite manner to Residents, families and other staff members.
Treating Resident’s with dignity and respect.
Recognizing that personal qualities affect communication styles.
Assisting other staff members as required Refusing to participate in gossip about coworkers and/or making comments about others’ religion, physical appearance, race, gender, as outlined in the policy.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. Le poste exige une vérification satisfaisante du casier judiciaire (y compris une vérification de l’habilitation à travailler auprès de personnes vulnérables), du registre des enfants maltraités et du registre des adultes maltraités comme conditions d’emploi. La candidate ou le candidat retenu devra assumer les frais de service engagés, s’il y a lieu. Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Veuillez noter qu’il est interdit qu’un employé ou une employée ait deux postes ETP ou plus, équivalant à un taux combiné de plus de 1,0, dans toute l’entité légale de l’ORSW (Centre Deer Lodge, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Hôpital Grace, Centre des sciences de la santé, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, River Park Gardens, Hôpital Victoria, programmes administratifs de l’ORSW, services de santé communautaire de l’ORSW).

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Nous serons heureux de recevoir les candidatures de personnes handicapées.