health care aide - Wingham, Canada - MACGOWAN NURSING HOMES LTD.

    MACGOWAN NURSING HOMES LTD.
    MACGOWAN NURSING HOMES LTD. Wingham, Canada

    1 month ago

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    Description
    • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
    • Langue de travail: Anglais
    • Heures de travail: 40 to 60 hours per week
    • Education:
    • Expérience:
    • Education

    • College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
    • or equivalent experience
    • Work setting

    • Willing to relocate
    • Nursing home/home for the aged
    • Tasks

    • Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
    • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
    • Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
    • 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
    • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
    • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
    • Supervise patients' exercise routines
    • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
    • Maintain inventory of supplies
    • Bathe, dress and groom patients
    • Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
    • Transport patients between care facilities
    • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
    • Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
    • 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
    • Health Care Aide Certificate
    • Security and safety

    • Criminal record check
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities

    • Fast-paced environment
    • Work under pressure
    • Repetitive tasks
    • Physically demanding
    • Attention to detail
    • Ability to distinguish between colours
    • Standing for extended periods
    • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
    • Bending, crouching, kneeling
    • Walking
    • Weight handling

    • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
    • Personal suitability

    • Dependability
    • Flexibility
    • Initiative
    • Interpersonal awareness
    • Reliability
    • Team player
    • Patience
    • Screening questions

    • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
    • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
    • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
    • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
    • Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
    • What is the highest level of study you have completed?
    • Experience

    • 1 to less than 7 months
    • Health benefits

    • Health care plan
    • Financial benefits

    • As per collective agreement
    • Other benefits

    • Other benefits
    • Parking available