support services assistant - medical

ProctoCan
Thornhill, ON, CA
$22-$30 an hour
Permanent
  • Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
  • Langue de travail : Anglais
  • Heures de travail : 40 hours per week
  • Education :
  • Expérience :

Education

  • College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
  • Health aide

Work setting

  • Home care and visiting care agency
  • Physician's office
  • Hospital / medical facility or clinic
  • Medical clinic
  • Health care institution, facility or clinic

Tasks

  • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
  • Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • 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
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Ensure infection control
  • Administer medications
  • Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
  • Provide wound and bandage care
  • Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients' condition
  • Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
  • Provide patient and family education
  • Interview patients
  • Ensure that quality nursing care is provided to patients
  • Assist with record management

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • Continuing Care Assistant Certification
  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate

Computer and technology knowledge

Electronic medical records

Area of specialization

  • Medical unit
  • Intensive care

Transportation / travel information

  • Valid driver's licence
  • Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Weight handling

Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Personal suitability

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

Screening questions

  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • 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?

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and / or refugees with experienced employees
  • Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and / or refugees

Support for Indigenous people

Offers mentorship, coaching and / or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example : anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
  • Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
  • 30+ days ago
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