Personal Support Worker

Current registration with the Health and Supportive Care Providers Oversight Authority (HSCPOA);

Acute care and/or previous rehab experience considered an asset;

Recent six (6) months direct patient care experience

Ability to facilitate unit functioning and smooth patient care flow

Awareness of Patient Centered Care

Client service oriented, with the ability to effectively work with diversity and appreciate that people with different opinions, backgrounds and characteristics bring richness to the challenge or situation at hand

Why join UHN?

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

Competitive compensation & benefits (medical, dental, etc.)

HOOPP defined benefit pension plan

Wellness services & offerings

Close access to the TTC and UHN shuttle service

Toronto General Hospital

Inpatient Mental Health, 8 Eaton South

The Personal Support Worker (PSW) is a member of the inter-professional care team and is expected to maintain a collaborative and active working relationship with team members in the provision of patient care.

Assist patients with activities of daily living: This includes feeding, lifts and transfers, bathing, skin care, oral hygiene, and toileting.

RNs and RPNs will be responsible for the oversight of the PSW when performing the assigned or delegated tasks.

Communicate and demonstrate basic information in accordance with a patient’s pre-established Plan of Care.

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.

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