Health Care Aide - Cumberland, Canada - Cumberland Lodge
2 weeks ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting:
- Rural area
- Nursing home/home for the aged
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
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Assist with the setup and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, settingup and operating jobrelated equipment
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals
- Collect specimens
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Security and safety:
- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
Transportation/travel information:
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling:
- Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or oncall work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the aboveindicated required certifications?
Other benefits:
- Free parking available
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