health care assistant

Work setting

• Nursing home / home for the aged

Tasks

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
• Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Perform other duties related to personal care
• 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
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Collect specimens

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Weight handling

• Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan
• Vision care benefits
• Work Term : Permanent
• Work Language : English
• Hours : 35 to 40 hours per week