Health Care Aide - Pickering, Canada - Alternative Home Care
3 weeks ago
Description
Education:
Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Experience an asset
Work setting:
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Various locations
- 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
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- 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
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- 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
- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Reliability
- Team player
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English or French
- Hours: 40 hours per week
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