- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education : Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience : Experience an asset
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Remote location
- Rural area
- Urban area
- Various locations
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital / medical facility or clinic
- Nursing home / home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
Tasks
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate
Security and safety
- Bondable
- Criminal record check
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Adult Abuse Registry check
Transportation / travel information
- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
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