Health Care Assistant - Vancouver, Canada - Hugs Health Services
2 weeks ago
Description
Education:
College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting:
- Willing to relocate
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- University or college
Tasks:
- 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
- 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
- Answer call signals
- 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
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Security and safety:
- Criminal record check
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
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Health benefits:
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
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