Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital / medical facility or clinic
- Nursing home / home for the aged
Tasks
- 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
- 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
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Weight handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
Experience
- Will train
- Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
- Langue de travail : Anglais
- Heures de travail : 35 hours per week