About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. Work setting: Group home. Rural area. Nursing home/home for the aged.
Tasks
- Housekeeping activities.
- Food preparation.
- Resolve conflict situations.
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses.
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Serve meal trays and feed patients.
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms.
- Collect specimens.
- Bathe, dress and groom patients.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Supply and empty bed pans.
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : First Aid Certificate.
- CPR Certificate.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Child Abuse Registry check.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Client focus.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Team player.
- Dependability.
- Reliability.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you currently a student?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Shift.
- Night.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: On call.
- Day.
Weekend.