Health Care Aide - Red Deer, Canada - Halo Home & Health Care Services
Halo Home & Health Care Services
Red Deer, Canada
Verified Company
3 weeks ago
Description
Work Term:
Temporary
- Work Language: English or French
- Hours: 30 to 44 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting:
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Remote location
- Rural area
- Urban area
- Various locations
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Physician's office
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital/medical facility or clinic
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a livein basis
Note:
This is NOT a condition of employment
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
- 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Security and safety:
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Drug test
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
Transportation/travel information:
- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling:
- Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- 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?
- 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?
- Do you have the necessary equipment for remote work (i.e. internet, home office, etc.)?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
Green job:
- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
Workplace information:
- Remote work available
Health benefits:
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Long term benefits:
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
Other benefits:
- Free parking available
