surgical assistant
Dynamic Endoscopy & Speciality Care
St. Catharines, ON, CA
$21,5 an hour
Permanent
Full-time
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 37.5 hours per week
- Education : College / CEGEP
- Experience : 1 year to less than 2 years
Tasks
- Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
- Assist health care professionals
- Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and / or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
- Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
- Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
- Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
- Record information about donors
- Assist chiropractor with patient health education
- Clean and dress wounds
- Label and process donated blood
- Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
- Remove casts, sutures and pins
- Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
- Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
- Collect statistics
- Maintain supplies
- Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
- Perform general clerical duties
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Take patients' general medical and ophthalmic history
- Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
- Organize and maintain inventory
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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
26 days ago