health care aide

Compassionate Care Home & Hospital Services Inc
Winnipeg, MB, CA
$16-$22 an hour
Permanent
Full-time
  • Work Term : Permanent
  • Work Language : English
  • Hours : 40 hours per week
  • Education : College / CEGEP
  • Experience : 1 year to less than 2 years
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

  • Home care and visiting care agency
  • Remote location
  • Rural area
  • Urban area
  • Various locations
  • Work in employer's / client's home
  • Relocation costs covered by employer
  • Willing to relocate
  • Physician's office
  • 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
  • Youth drop-in centre
  • Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note : This is NOT a condition of employment

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
  • 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
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Child Abuse Registry check
  • Adult Abuse Registry check

Transportation / travel information

Own transportation

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

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Parking available
  • 1 day ago
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