HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT DAY
October 18, 2011 has been proclaimed by the Provincial Government as Health Care Assistant Day.
It is expected that on October 18, 2011, employers, unions and educational institutes training Care Aides and Community Health Workers (Health Care Assistants) will all take a moment and recognize these very important workers in their own special way.
"Health Care Assistant" refers to several different positions including Community Health Workers, Residential Care Aides, Home Support Workers, Long Term Care Aides, Continuing Care Assistants and Personal Care Aides.
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Health Care Assistant Day Proclamation
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Welcome to the BC Care Aide & Community Health Worker Registry!
The registry is a database of credentialed, or “registered”, care aides and community health workers. The BC Care Aide & Community Health Worker Registry is offered to all care aides and community health workers who are employed or wish to be employed in B.C. by a publicly-funded employer. This includes acute care, assisted living care, long term care and home and community care.
If you are a care aide or community health worker wanting to register, please go to the
Registration section of this site. If you are ready to register online now, click on the
Register Now button on the right side of this page.
If you are a publicly-funded employer searching for care aides and/or community health workers, you will need to do the following:
• before you search for the first time you will need to create a login, click on the drop down section
Registration, Register Now - Employers and complete the online form.
• once you have registered, you can check to see if an employee or potential employee is registered or not, click on the gold box
Request a Search - For employers only button on the right side of this page. Enter your Username and Password to request a search to see if a specific care aide and/or community health worker is registered or not.
• There is also a section with
Employer Information.
BC Care Aide & Community Health Worker Registry Role & Mandate
i. To protect vulnerable patients, residents and clients.
• To provide a database of credentialed (“registered”) care aides and community health workers who are eligible for employment in publicly-funded organizations and settings.
• To create a common process for employers in reporting and investigating patient, resident and client abuse complaints.
• To suspend from the Registry, and/or remove from the Registry after the completion of the appeal process, any care aides or community health workers who have been terminated by the employer for just cause for patient, resident or client abuse. The definition of “abuse” for these purposes is the same as the definition set out in the Residential Care Regulation part 5, division 2, section 52 (1) (a) of the Community Care and Assisted Living Act that states “A licensee must ensure that a person in care is not, while under the care or supervision of the licensee, subjected to
(a) financial abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse or neglect as those terms are defined in section 1 of Schedule D, or
(b) deprivation of food or fluids as a form of punishment.”
ii. To establish and improve standards of care in the Care Aide and Community Health Worker occupations.
• To establish a standard, provincially mandated Health Care Assistant Training Program and ensure that all future care aides and community health workers complete this program or an equally recognized program.
• To communicate the Care Aide and Community Health Worker Provincial Curriculum, including communication to supervisors and team leaders.
iii. To promote professional development for Care Aides and Community Health Workers and to assist these workers in identifying career opportunities.
To provide easy access, via the Registry website, on the following:
• Care Aide and Community Health Worker Framework of Practice
• Educational upgrade modules
• Information on new roles within the care aide and community health worker occupations
