Personal Support Aide - Ottawa, Canada - Unitarian House of ottawa
3 weeks ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 12 to 40 hours biweekly
- Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting:
- Urban area
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Tasks:
- 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
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- 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
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling:
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Organized
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or oncall work?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
Other benefits:
- Free parking available
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