About this role
Education: Other trades certificate or diploma. Work setting: Hospital or home for the aged. Nursing home/home for the aged.
Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities.
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling 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.
- Bathe, dress and groom patients.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Collect specimens.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training.
- CPR Certificate.
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Team player.
- Patience.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Support for youths: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment.
- Support for Indigenous people: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.
- Supports for visible minorities: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities.