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Personal Support Aide - Mississauga, Canada - HOMESTAY HEALTH SERVICES CORP.
HOMESTAY HEALTH SERVICES CORP.
Mississauga, Canada
Verified Company
1 month ago
Description
Education:
College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
Work setting:
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Work in employer's/client's home
- 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
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Collect specimens
- 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
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling:
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- 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?
- Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 36 to 40 hours per week
