Health Care Aide - Vancouver, Canada - Passionate Care Nursing
5 days ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 32 to 40 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
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Tasks:
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- 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
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- 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:
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Security and safety:
- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Vulnerable sector check
- Tuberculosis test
Transportation/travel information:
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Weight handling:
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
Screening questions:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
Financial benefits:
- Gasoline paid
Other benefits:
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
Support for newcomers and refugees:
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
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