nursing services aide

Additional Information

• Work Term: Temporary
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 60 to 80 hours bi-weekly
• Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
• Experience: Experience an asset
• or equivalent experience

Tasks

• 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
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals
• Collect specimens
• 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 

• Continuing Care Assistant Certification
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Nursing Aide Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Security and safety

• Bondable
• Basic security clearance
• Criminal record check
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Child welfare check
• Driver's validity licence check
• Driving record check (abstract)
• Drug test
• Immunization records
• Eligible for professional liability insurance
• Tuberculosis test
• Adult Abuse Registry check
• Vulnerable sector check

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence
• Own transportation
• Own vehicle
• Travel expenses not paid by employer

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player

Screening questions

• Are you available for shift or on-call work?
• Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
• 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?
• Do you have the necessary equipment for remote work (i.e. internet, home office, etc.)?
• What is the highest level of study you have completed?
• What is your current field of study?

Workplace information

• Remote work available