Client Care Assistant (Personal Support Worker) - March Break Respite Camp

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There are 4 Client Care Assistant (Personal Support Worker) positions available.

The Smart Centres Creative Arts March Break Respite Camp is a day camp for children and youth with physical disabilities and developmental delays. Participants will interact and play through music, visual art, movement and drama. The goal of the program is to enable participants to have fun through creative, sensory and social experiences and to provide respite relief to families during the March Break school holiday (March 10-14, 2025). Successful candidates must be flexible to participate in training after business hours or on weekends. An additional, mandatory full-team training session is being held on Saturday, February 28, 2025 (afternoon) and an evening on Monday March 3, 2025.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to provide full eating support to clients, independently as needed
• Responsible for personal care for clients, including changing briefs
• Responsible for client feeding and toileting with proven experience with Hoyer/ceiling lifts
• Assist Group Leader/attendants with clients' needs as necessary
• Assist safe participation of clients in the assigned group
• Supervise lunch/break times of clients
• Collaborate with program staff, volunteers and families
• Work as a team member, with Group Leader, attendants, volunteers and artistic animators, in order to ensure programming goals are met, includes participation in group activities ie, sing along at music time etc
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives, support the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment and advance a culture of client/patient safety through work and daily practices
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• PSW certificate/college diploma or equivalent
• Proven experience with Hoyer/ceiling lifts/ changing tables, and all aspects of toileting activities
• Proven experience in preparing clients who use wheelchairs for transportation i.e, on a school bus
• Experience working with children and youth with physical disabilities and developmental delays
• CPR HS (Heart Saver) recommended
• Must be flexible, have the ability to assess the needs of individuals and quickly respond to needs
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and work in collaboration with staff/clients/families
• Knowledge of Deaf culture and fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) an asset
• Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to efficiently manage working hours
• The ability to assess, communicate and work independently at times
• Ability to lift, transfer or position participants independently as needed
• Ability to feed and toilet participants independently as needed
• Ability to adhere and follow directions/instructions