About this role
Education: Other trades certificate or diploma. Work setting: Rural area. Work in employer's/client's home. Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment.
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.
- Serve meal trays and feed patients.
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients.
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms.
- Supervise patients' exercise routines.
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas.
- Bathe, dress and groom patients.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Health Care Aide Certificate.
- Security and safety: Driver's validity licence check.
- Driving record check (abstract).
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Vehicle supplied by employer.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Repetitive tasks.
- Physically demanding.
- Manual dexterity.
- Attention to detail.
- Sound discrimination.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Walking.
- Weight handling: More than 45 kg (100 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Patience.
- Screening questions: 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?.
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years.
- Employment terms options: To be determined.