Dorval Alternative Home : Recruitment

The responsibilities of a nurse include:

• Establishing a partnership relationship with the resident and their loved ones;
• Promoting residents’ autonomy and helping maintain their optimal functional level for as long as possible;
• Establishing respectful and courteous communication with residents and loved ones, both in activities of daily life and in clinical interventions;
• Establishing and adjusting the therapeutic nursing plan (PTI), collaborate in the development of the interdisciplinary intervention plan (PII) and collaborate in the deployment of activities aimed at maintaining autonomy and capabilities;
• Determining the measures and methods of clinical monitoring;
• Learning and using various clinical monitoring or telehealth tools (networked physiological monitors, tablets, surveillance cameras)¹;
• Through your interventions, contributing to the attainment of the resident’s wishes and aspirations, and promoting their quality of life;
• Preventing health problems, accidents, abuse and various risks;
• Participating in the process surrounding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Participating in the process surrounding medical aid in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Exercising leadership within the team to ensure quality of care and ensure the necessary knowledge transfer;
• Moving between floors and household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents²;
• Actively contributing during interdisciplinary meetings.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / team spirit / adaptability / analytical thinking / effective communication

The responsibilities of a nurse clinician include:

• Establishing a partnership relationship with the resident and their loved ones;
• Promoting residents’ autonomy and helping maintain their optimal functional level for as long as possible;
• Establishing respectful and courteous communication with residents and loved ones, both in activities of daily life and in clinical interventions;
• Establishing and adjusting the therapeutic nursing plan (PTI), collaborating in the development of the interdisciplinary intervention plan (PII) and collaborating in the deployment of activities aimed at maintaining autonomy and capabilities;
• Determining the measures and methods of clinical monitoring;
• Learning and using various clinical monitoring or telehealth tools (networked physiological monitors, tablets, surveillance cameras)¹;
• Through your interventions, contributing to the attainment of the resident’s wishes and aspirations, and promote their quality of life;
• Preventing health problems, accidents, abuse and various risks;
• Participating in the process surrounding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Participating in the process surrounding medical aid in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Exercising leadership within the team to ensure quality of care and ensure the necessary knowledge transfer;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents²;
• Contributing to supervising university interns;
• Actively participating in interdisciplinary meetings.
• This function requires obtaining the right to prescribe within 6 months to 12 months.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / team spirit / adaptability / analytical thinking / effective communication

The responsibilities of a nursing assistant include:

• Promoting residents’ autonomy and aspirations, and helping maintain their optimal functional level for as long as possible;
• Communicating respectfully and courteously, both in activities of daily life and in clinical interventions;
• Actively collaborating during the resident’s admission (data collection, observation and measurements, verifying BMR, reviewing list of medications and allergies, etc.) while respecting the resident’s pace;
• Listening to breathing sounds, auscultating the abdomen, and reporting the information to the care team;
• Contributing to the therapeutic nursing plan (PTI) and the interdisciplinary intervention plan (PII);
• Learning and using various clinical monitoring or telehealth tools (networked physiological monitors, tablets, surveillance cameras)¹;
• Preparing and administering medication, provide follow-up and monitoring;
• Following a nursing directive or prescription to install/apply control or alternative measures, install/remove a bladder or suprapubic catheter, assist with vaccinations, treat pressure ulcers;
• Taking samples, vacuuming secretions, maintaining ostomies, and performing certain invasive procedures;
• Using clinical judgment regarding the information collected by other members of the care team; collect the data and inform the staff concerned;
• Collecting data on wounds or following a fall and contribute to the appropriate clinical follow-up;
• Participating in the process surrounding medical aid in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Maintaining clinical equipment and report defects;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents²;
• Contributing to welcoming interns;
• Actively contributing during interdisciplinary meetings.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / team spirit / adaptability / effective communication / able to install IVs and apply complex care techniques (e.g. trach)

In addition to the responsibilities of a nurse clinician, they also:

• Plan and coordinate clinical activities, act as a resource person for colleagues, support the team in managing complex cases, collaborate in ensuring the provision of safe and quality care, and identify training needs;
• Ensure protocols are in place and followed, collaborate in the development of quality and service improvement programs;
• Participate in allocating resources and the distribution of nursing resources to meet clinical needs;
• Collaborate with emergency measures and ensure follow-up after Code Blue/Purple;
• Support continuous improvement of practices: contribute to managing complaints related to patients’ clinical condition, ensure clinical follow-up on sensitive quality indicators, contribute to analyzing incident/accident reports, and ensure corrective measures are implemented.
• Coordinate infection prevention and control measures (IPC);
• Coordinate the process surrounding medical aid in dying (MAiD) when required;
• Supervise new staff members, floating teams, and agency personnel, and contribute to the integration of interns.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / leadership and autonomy / analytical thinking / sense of organization and prioritization / team spirit / adaptability / effective communication

The responsibilities of a beneficiary attendant include:

• Working closely with the multidisciplinary team and communicate with the nurse about task assignments, resident specificities, changes in condition, or situations that are problematic or present a risk;
• Taking part in revising the intervention plan and use technological tools (tablet) to ensure it is followed;
• Ensuring patients are fed and hydrated, and assist with bathroom functions, while respecting their natural rhythm and schedule;
• Carrying out personal hygiene in accordance with the resident’s wishes and while respecting their natural rhythm and schedule, prevent wounds, and clean/disinfect equipment;
• Ensuring the resident’s movements in accordance with their wishes, doing so in a safe manner using the equipment indicated in the care plan, securing the resident and their environment (authorized control measures, monitoring, etc.);
• Helping the resident dress and undress in accordance with their needs, put away clothing or send it for cleaning;
• Establishing respectful and courteous communication with the resident and their loved ones, assist in their arrival, maximize their autonomy, respect their privacy, adapt their routine to their liking, be attentive and available, provide support in the dealing with progressive illness;
• Ensuring the resident gets the rest they need while respecting their natural rhythm and schedule;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents¹;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes²;
• Reacting promptly in an emergency.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / team spirit / adaptability / tact and diplomacy / empathy and open-mindedness / sense of responsibility and initiative / effective communication

The responsibilities of a pavilion attendant include:

• Establishing respectful and courteous communication with the resident and their loved ones, supporting and encouraging their integration, helping with carrying out daily activities while encouraging their autonomy, providing and adapting support throughout the course of the illness;
• Collecting and sharing with the team information on the resident’s rhythms, habits, and interests;
• Contributing to the planning of daily activities, participating in those activities, and encouraging residents’ participation, while also respecting residents’ wishes and abilities;
• Maximizing residents’ potential by integrating them into housekeeping and meal tasks while respecting their wishes and abilities;
• Contributing to maintaining the premises (light cleaning tasks) and ensuring adequate supplies are on hand;
• Preparing simple food/snacks/meals based on the requests and needs of the residents;
• Assisting residents, their families and informal caregivers, informing others of their needs, and informing the appropriate caseworkers of any dysfunctions;
• Taking part in welcoming new employees, interns, and volunteers;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents¹;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes²;
• Reacting promptly in an emergency.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / team spirit / adaptability / tact and diplomacy / empathy and open-mindedness / sense of responsibility and initiative / effective communication

The responsibilities of a food services attendant include:

• Portioning food for feeding resident, staff or visitor meals, preparing various orders, and packaging food;
• Checking that orders are accurately filled, placing the food on the carts, and distributing the meals or snacks according to a schedule that may vary depending on the residents’ needs and natural rhythms.
• Ensuring food safety at all times, cleaning/disinfecting surfaces and the working environment, respecting hygiene and safety rules as well as existing procedures;
• Receiving, storing, maintaining an inventory, and rotating food supplies;
• Ensuring that equipment used for food distribution is in good working order, informing the appropriate people of any issues, reporting any potential risks, participating in continuous quality improvements;
• Washing and putting away dishes and containers;
• Knowing residents’ specific needs regarding at-risk activities (textures, allergies, etc.) and reporting any observations on food residents’ food intake;
• Establishing a respectful and courteous communication with the resident and their loved ones;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents¹;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes².

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Conscientiousness / team spirit / adaptability

The responsibilities of a laundry attendant include:

• Receiving or picking up and store dirty laundry, collecting uniforms from changing rooms and sorting them;
• Loading/unloading the machines or carts;
• Operating the domestic and industrial washing machines and dryers, and reporting any issues with the machines;
• Folding, hanging, labelling, and distributing linens and clothing, ensuring the supply of linens in each residential unit, ensuring linens are changed;
• Replying to requests from residents or their loved ones, welcoming authorized visitors, setting appointments for the distribution of uniforms;
• Producing requisitions for laundry detergents and validating the orders;
• Doing basic sewing work;
• Quickly contributing to the isolation procedure in the case of contagion.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Team spirit / able to perform physical work and work while standing / dexterity

The responsibilities of a housekeeping attendant include:

• Ensuring cleanliness (washing floors, maintain and wash carpets, disposing of garbage, filling certain distributors, cleaning bathrooms, washing walls and windows, dusting, etc.) according to a work schedule that can vary according to the needs of residents and staff;
• Disinfecting high-touch surfaces and decontaminating rooms when required;
• Moving furniture and take down curtains, wall decorations, blinds, and draperies for cleaning when required;
• Distributing linens using a cart, picking up bags of laundry and disposing of them according to the established procedure;
• Establishing a respectful and courteous communication with the resident and their loved ones;
• Moving between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents¹;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes².

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Team spirit / autonomy / adaptability

The responsibilities of an administrative agent—class 1 include:

• Supporting managers in their administrative responsibilities, participating in the creation of administrative processes, and ensuring those processes are coordinated and rigorous
• Ensuring performance indicators are updated and accountability monitoring requests from the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) or CIUSSS management bodies are addressed by determining the information to be extracted from the information systems;
• Creating tracking grids or administrative forms, and producing and laying out of reports;
• Collaborating with the class 2 administrative agent to ensure continuous support to the teams;
• Ensuring knowledge sharing and the circulation of key information to teams, and providing technical support in the context of the paperless environment;
• Being familiar with policies, procedures and current regulations (ex., access to information), applying them, and informing both staff and residents about them;
• Ordering supplies in accordance with purchasing procedures;
• Managing the trust and petty cash;
• Organizing meetings, producing meeting minutes, managing correspondence, taking part in coordinating managers’ agendas, and assisting the residents’ committee with clerical tasks;
• Knowing the general profile of the clientele, using terminology appropriately, communicating with residents and their loved ones in a respectful and courteous manner;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes¹.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Proficient with Office 365 / team spirit / conscientiousness / effective communication / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / technological skills

The responsibilities of an administrative agent—class 2 include:

• Answering and transferring incoming calls, managing the voicemail system and general mail at the alternative home; providing general information and consulting with the administrative agent class 1 or clinical personnel regarding questions on issues under their responsibility;
• Taking part in developing of various tables and administrative forms, participate in updating indicators and statistics, and helping ensure the quality of administrative processes;
• Collaborating with the class 1 administrative agent to ensure continuous support to the teams;
• Making appointments for residents and coordinating their transport;
• Sending, sorting, and distributing mail;
• Preparing documents required for residents’ admission and acting as the first point of contact for family and loved ones seeking information;
• Being familiar with and follow administrative procedures, and explaining them to the staff;
• Setting up equipment required for telehealth appointments (laptop, camera, etc.);
• Receiving and validating supply orders, and monitoring inventory;
• Supporting care staff in their clerical duties;
• Knowing the general profile of the clientele, using terminology appropriately, communicating with residents and their loved ones in a respectful and courteous manner;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes¹.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Proficient with Office 365 / team spirit / conscientiousness / effective communication / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / technological skills

The responsibilities of an administrative agent—class 3 include:

• Receiving and transferring incoming calls; taking messages and informing the staff members concerned; participating in managing the general email address of the alternative home;
• Taking part in updating indicators and statistics (data entry);
• Making and confirming appointments for residents;
• Participating in mail handling (sending, sorting, and distributing);
• Participating in administrative processes related to residents’ admission;
• Answering requests and questions from family and loved ones, and referring to class 1 and 2 administrative agents with regard to their responsibilities;
• Collaborating with the class 1 and 2 administrative agents to ensure continuous support to the teams;
• Being familiar with administrative procedures and be able to assist the staff with following those procedures;
• If needed, assisting the class 2 administrative agent with setting up equipment required for telehealth appointments (laptop, camera, etc.);
• Participating in monitoring inventory and alerting the class 2 administrative agent when items need to be ordered;
• Supporting care staff in their clerical duties;
• Knowing the general profile of the clientele, using terminology appropriately, communicating with residents and their loved ones in a respectful and courteous manner;
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes¹.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Proficient with Office 365 / team spirit / conscientiousness / effective communication / autonomy / sense of organization and prioritization / technological skills

Depending on the specifics of each job title, technicians and professionals in this category are called on to:

• Contribute to the intake of new residents (identification of needs, contribute to developing the interdisciplinary transition plan, environmental adaptations);
• Promote an approach based on partnership and consultation with the user and their loved ones, and interact with dignity and respect;
• Assess the person, share the results and recommendations with the team, integrating the life goals and the principle of self-determination into those recommendations;
• Develop a discipline-specific intervention plan and support/educate families and loved ones regarding this plan;
• Promote interdisciplinarity through a collaborative approach, contribute to the interdisciplinary intervention plan (PII), ensuring follow-up and integrating interventions into activities of daily living (AVQ) to the extent possible;
• Collaborate in programming free-standing, occupational, and leisure activities and encourage residents’ participation;
• Collaborate with other establishments and community resources to meet the needs of the resident and their loved ones;
• Learn and use various clinical monitoring or telehealth tools (networked physiological monitors, tablets, surveillance cameras)¹;
• When necessary, adapt your schedule to the needs of the resident and the interventions to be carried out;
• On a voluntary basis, act as an internship supervisor for students in their respective disciplines;
• Move between floors and different household units in response to work peaks generated by the individual needs of residents²;
• Actively contribute during interdisciplinary meetings.

The responsibilities of a dietitian-nutritionist include:

• Participating in screening for people with nutritional risks, assess the condition of residents, determine a treatment plan and ensure its follow-up, adapt the diet to the residents’ needs, and monitor those residents for whom a plan is in place;
• Assessing deglutition in the context of dysphagia;
• Explaining the risks and benefits of adapting the texture or consistency of foods;
• Determining, if needed, the optimal feeding route and develop, modify or validate enteral feeding plans;
• Reconciling nutritional needs with medical condition, professional recommendations, and expressed preferences;
• Determining the nutritional changes required to promote wound healing;
• Supporting the resident, their loved ones, and the team in the context of end-of-life feeding;
• Working closely with food service personnel, in particular ensure the feasibility of specific nutritional recommendations;
• In collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Services Directorate (MSD), ensuring best practices are put forth to ensure food service activities are aligned with the residents’ needs.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / creativity, openness, and empathy / effective communication / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking

The responsibilities of a physical trainer/kinesiologist include:

• Collecting structured data to assess the resident’s physical characteristics and movement dynamics;
• Carrying out interventions aimed at removing obstacles to the resident’s safety, comfort, functional autonomy and ability to fulfil themself through meaningful occupational activities (leisure, social involvement, etc.);
• Helping to identify fall risks;
• Working within an interdisciplinary team that includes professionals in nursing, assisted care, specialized education, social services, rehabilitation, nutrition, etc.;
• Consulting with team members to find out about restrictions concerning exercise;
• Developing a personalized exercise program that is safe and accounts for disabilities, limitations, and incapacities, with the goal of maintaining capacity and preventing deconditioning.
• Accompanying, stimulating, and supervising residents when practising their exercise program, including walking with or without mobility aids, while respecting their natural rhythm and individual preferences;
• During rehabilitation support interventions, applying the intervention plan as recommended by the professional (physiotherapist or other);
• Actively participating in prevention and management of risks to the residents’ safety.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / effective communication / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / empathy and open-mindedness / knowledge of collaborative and partnership-based approaches to care and services

The responsibilities of an occupational therapist include:

• Contributing to the intake of new residents by identifying limitations, suggesting potential avenues for intervention, and implementing a disciplinary intervention plan when required;
• Evaluating the person’s functional abilities (repercussions of symptoms, deficiencies, disabilities and the environmental context) in the context of their life goals;
• Evaluating a person with a diagnosed mental or neuropsychological disorder;
• Evaluating the neuromusculoskeletal function of a person with a deficiency/disability;
• Integrating the principles of self-determination into your practice;
• Intervening with a view to eliminating disability situations (adaptation) or developing/maintaining the skills (motor skills, cognitive abilities) needed for activities that are meaningful to the person;
• Promoting residents’ autonomy and social participation and support those around them (families, loved ones) in that regard, from a preventive or curative perspective;
• Contributing to determining a medical diagnosis;
• Contributing to the sound management of equipment and technical aids, and help to train teams on their use;
• Taking part in interdisciplinary dysphagia assessments;
• Determining the use of control, isolation or alternative measures and participate in their interdisciplinary assessment;
• Taking part in interdisciplinary assessments concerning the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries and provide appropriate treatments.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / openness / effective communication / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking

The responsibilities of a physiotherapist include:

• Planning interventions to empower, compensate or maintain functional autonomy to help the resident achieve their goals;
• Assessing disabilities resulting from injuries, illnesses and suboptimal lifestyle habits that affect the musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiorespiratory systems;
• Assessing the resident’s level of physical activity, functional autonomy, cardiovascular and pulmonary capacity, willingness to change behaviours, confidence, and barriers and social support related to physical activity;
• Collecting data and, if necessary, performing clinical, anthropometric or vital signs examinations (in connection with the AINÉES “autonomy and mobility, integument of the skin, nutrition or hydration, elimination, cognitive state and behaviour, and sleep” tool and the AAPA “approach adapted to the elderly”);
• Rating the resident’s level of risk (falls, deconditioning, etc.) and making a clinical judgment on their state of health and autonomy (prognostic factors and those predictive of their response to treatment);
• Carrying out the procedures indicated in the intervention plan (develop programs or run exercise classes, etc.) and teach the safety aspects of practicing physical activity;
• Recommending means (technical aids, etc.) to compensate for motor disabilities, helping teach how to use them, and contributing to the sound management of the equipment;
• Adapting the resident’s environment and contribute to fall prevention;
• Participating in the choice and application of pain management modalities and in recognizing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD);
• Participating in the interdisciplinary assessment of control, isolation, or alternative measures;
• Taking part in interdisciplinary assessments concerning the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries and collaborate in optimizing treatment of chronic and complex wounds;
• Participating in the implementation of interventions aimed at preventing deconditioning and immobilization syndrome in susceptible residents.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / effective communication / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking

The responsibilities of an art therapist include:

• Taking part in evaluating the resident’s level of interdisciplinary functioning, establishing an art therapy intervention plan drawing on a variety of media and periodically evaluating its effectiveness, all in coherence with the treatment plan;
• Planning, organizing, and leading individual and group activities intended to encourage their autonomy;
• Implementing art therapy interventions that integrate the principles of self-determination, are consistent with the resident’s pace, and encourage their participation in the alternative home’s community and social life;
• Using the living environment to support the person in their adaptation process;
• Taking an interdisciplinary approach, communicate pertinent information to team members, make recommendations when required, and promote art therapy services to alternative house staff;
• Documenting and keeping up to date documents on activities, evaluations, progress notes, and reports;
• Establishing a relationship of communication and support with the resident and their loved ones;
• Helping to organize vernissages, exhibitions, concerts, or other presentations of residents’ works;
• Teaching family members by showing the relevance of art therapy interventions;
• Ensuring a link with the recreation department in order to promote a range of services.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / experience with art therapy / communication and listening skills / professional autonomy / team spirit / judgment and diplomacy / adaptability / empathy and open-mindedness

The responsibilities of a social worker include:

• Integrating family and loved ones into preparations for the arrival of a new resident;
• Evaluating the person’s social functioning, carry out interventions aimed at improving it, and assist the person in adapting to decreased capacity;
• Supporting the person in optimizing their health and well-being while also adapting to their choices;
• Acting as a resource person for promoting and defending residents’ rights;
• Documenting/analyzing risk factors, identifying susceptible residents needing protection, carrying out psychosocial assessments in order to represent the individual;
• In collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, intervening to prevent social isolation and implement strategies aimed at meeting the pecuniary, physical and material needs of a person with diminished autonomy;
• Supporting the resident and their family during psychosocial family situations or other complex issues (ex.: legal procedures);
• Referring the resident and their loved one to resources or appropriate social programs while encouraging the person’s autonomy throughout the process;
• Evaluating a person who is in crisis or suicidal, estimate the level of danger and ensure close follow-up;
• Supporting the resident and their loved ones during the final stages of life and direct loved ones to support resources.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / communication and listening skills / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking / knowledge of the following approaches: living environment, person-centred or strengths-centred, relational approach to care (ARS), behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), collaborative, care and service partnership

The responsibilities of a psychoeducator include:

• Supporting the person as they transition into their new living environment;
• Evaluating a person’s adjustment difficulties and adaptive capacities, analyze the causes and dynamics of the observed disturbances and support your analysis through participant observation;
• Establishing a prognosis, collaborate with the resident and their loved ones to develop an intervention plan, and help the resident to maintain or establish a balance between themself and their environment in order to maximize independence;
• Providing the interdisciplinary team, families and loved ones with prevention and intervention strategies in response to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) or mental health issues;
• Promoting the person’s integration into community and social life, and supporting them in optimizing their health and well-being while respecting their pace and in accordance with their life goals;
• Using the living environment to support the person in their adaptation process;
• Using recognized intervention approaches or techniques appropriate to the resident’s characteristics and ensure that psychoeducation activities respect their pace;
• Evaluating a person who is in crisis or suicidal, estimate the level of danger and ensure close follow-up;
• Taking part in decisions concerning the exceptional use of control or alternative measures;
• Advising the care team by sharing with them your understanding of the diagnoses, challenges, needs and dynamics of the resident.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / communication and listening skills / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking / knowledge of the following approaches: non-pharmacological, living environment, person-centred or strengths-centred, relational approach to care (ARS), behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), collaborative, care and service partnership

The responsibilities of an assistant head dietitian include:

• Sharing the responsibilities of the department head (human resources management including schedules, vacation schedule, work attendance, orientation for new employees, discipline, work climate, communication) and replacing them during their regular absences;
• Taking part in applying the food services and clinical nutrition protocols;
• Participating in interdisciplinary, statutory, and management meetings;
• Participating in partner activities (special meals, activities, assorted projects, etc.);
• Participating in training sessions provided and transfer knowledge to the team;
• Ensuring confidentiality, safety, and integrity of information related to users, human resources, and equipment;
• With regard to workplace health and safety, ensuring or contributing to ensuring the following: monitoring required to maintain a safe environment; employee participation in required training; and, the availability of protective equipment;
• Participating in the incident-accident reporting process and the development and implementation of corrective measures;
• Taking part in defining the service offer and develop equitable work plans and task assignments;
• Contributing to proper management of a balanced budget;
• Ensuring the maintenance and availability of equipment and ensure needed supplies are purchased;
• Taking part in managing large-scale diet-related projects;
• Being aware of client specificities concerning at-risk activities (textures, allergies, etc.);
• Carrying out the tasks of a dietary technician (adapt menus, compile data and reports, visit residents, control preparation and serving of food, quality and quantity control, etc.) for an adult residential clientele with significant issues related to intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD).
• Working in a setting equipped with cameras for clinical monitoring purposes¹;

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Interest in people with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / leadership and team spirit / initiative / adaptability and stress tolerance / sense of responsibility and initiative / empathy and open-mindedness

The responsibilities of a physiotherapy technologist include:

• Helping the resident attain their own life goals by planning interventions to increase, compensate for, or maintain their functional independence;
• Acting in accordance with Art. 39.4 of the Professional Code and Regulation 94m regarding the type of permit accorded by the Ordre professionnel de la physiothérapie du Québec (OPPQ);
• Carrying out assessments;
• Collaborating with the resident to develop an individualized intervention plan that aligns with their goals;
• Carrying out the procedures indicated in the intervention plan to optimize or maintain the resident’s optimal functional performance, which can include identifying frequency parameters and the probable duration of interventions, the level of health monitoring, and the means and frequency for reassessing the plan’s effectiveness;
• Communicating with the physiotherapist, physician, or care team when the resident’s condition changes significantly in an unexpected way;
• Ensuring the resident’s autonomy in tasks of daily life is improved or maintained and promote their learning at a pace that respects their readiness for change;
• Teaching the safety aspects of practicing physical activity, recommending the use of technical or mobility aids when relevant, and taking part in teaching their appropriate and safe use;
• Contributing to the sound management of equipment and technical aids;
• Adapting the resident’s environment in accordance to their expressed choices, in order to promote safety and optimize functional autonomy;
• Participating with the interdisciplinary team in choosing and applying of pain management modalities, and in recognizing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD);
• Taking part in the decision-making process concerning the exceptional use of control or alternative measures;
• Collaborating in fall prevention, the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries, and the implementation of interventions to prevent deconditioning and immobilization syndrome in susceptible residents.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / communication and listening skills / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking / knowledge of the following approaches: living environment, person-centred biopsychosocial approach, interdisciplinarity, relational approach to care (ARS), behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), motivational speaking

The responsibilities of a social services worker include:

• Collecting data on social functioning and mental health or neuropsychological symptoms, need analyses, and detecting issues in collaboration with the professionals involved;
• Working with the resident and their loved ones to develop the goals of an intervention plan that respects the resident’s needs, pace, and choices, and carry out the needed psychosocial interventions, particularly to prevent the resident’s social isolation;
• Supporting the resident in optimizing their health and well-being throughout their stay, while respecting their choices and their life goals;
• Identifying protection needs, contributing to the process of creating a curatorship, documenting and analyzing risk factors or indicators of mistreatment, and ensuring the rights of residents and their loved ones are protected;
• Supporting the resident in their adaptation to decreased capacity and in obtaining complementary services, while also encouraging their autonomy during the process;
• Organizing information session for the resident and their loved ones;
• Assessing residents in crisis based on the risk they represent to themself and others;
• Carrying out the psychosocial procedures for relocation requests;
• Accompanying the individual and their loved ones during the final stages of life and direct loved ones to support resources.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / communication and listening skills / team spirit / clinical judgment and professional autonomy / adaptability / analytical thinking / knowledge of the following approaches: living environment, person-centred or strengths-centred, relational approach to care (ARS), behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), collaborative, care and service partnership

The responsibilities of an educator include:

• Screening for adjustment/integration difficulties, and assessing the resident’s ability to adapt as well as their interactions with their environment;
• Contributing to the development of an intervention plan promoting autonomy, ensuring its implementation, and carrying out the interventions within their field of expertise, in collaboration with the resident, their loved ones and other stakeholders;
• In collaboration with loved ones, exploring the resident’s interests and needs in order to better meet those, and contribute to updating their life goals;
• Establishing versatile, free-standing activities that meet residents’ needs, leading leisure activities, ensuring that they are carried out, and collaborating in recreational activities;
• Encouraging residents to be autonomous and to participate in daily activities and domestic tasks;
• Helping integrate volunteers into the living environment;
• Supporting the team and the resident’s loved ones in response to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD);
• Carrying out interventions aimed at preventing deconditioning in susceptible residents;
• Helping to identify cases in need of protection and collaborate in the relevant processes;
• Encouraging the staff, residents and their loved ones to take part in community life at the alternative home.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / drive and initiative / team spirit / adaptability / knowledge of the following approaches: living environment, person-centred or strengths-centred, relational approach to care (ARS), behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), collaborative, care and service partnership

The responsibilities of a recreational activities technician include:

• In collaboration with other stakeholders, developing varied calendar of activities that are adapted to the residents’ needs and interests, and ensuring it is made known;
• Establishing versatile, free-standing activities that meet residents’ needs and lead leisure activities;
• Producing and publishing a resident newspaper;
• Establishing budget forecasts for activities, recommending the purchase of required equipment, ensuring the availability and maintenance of occupational equipment;
• Welcoming, orienting, and accompanying staff assigned to leisure activities;
• Knowledge sharing on the integration of occupation activities into residents’ day-to-day lives; 
• Building partnerships with the community.

Strengths relevant to this work setting: Experience or knowledge relating to clients with intellectual disabilities (ID) - autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - physical disability (PD) / drive and initiative / team spirit / autonomy / communication and listening skills / relational approach to care (ARS) and understanding of the living environment’s philosophy.