personal care aide - home care
Focus On Caring
Calgary, AB, CA
$20,81 an hour (estimated)
Permanent
- Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
- Langue de travail : Anglais
- Heures de travail : 30 hours per week
- Education :
- Expérience :
Education
College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Work setting
- Various locations
- Work in employer's / client's home
Tasks
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Administer medications
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
- Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
- Change non-sterile dressings
- Collect specimens
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Cook
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Skin care
- Clean and dress wounds
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Target audience
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease
- Adults
- Convalescent
- Elderly
- Females
- Males
- Over 12 years
- Persons with a disability
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Terminally ill
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Reference required
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Standing for extended periods
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
Between 61 and 80 kg (133-176 lbs)
Screening questions
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
5 days ago