health care aide

Additional Information

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Education: College/CEGEP
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
• or equivalent experience

Work setting

• Home care and visiting care agency
• Remote location
• Rural area
• Urban area
• Various locations
• Work in employer's/client's home
• Relocation costs covered by employer
• Willing to relocate
• Physician's office
• Hospital or home for the aged
• Hospital/medical facility or clinic
• Nursing home/home for the aged
• Public or community health centre
• Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
• Youth drop-in centre
• Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment

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
• 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
• 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
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Adult Abuse Registry check

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Personal suitability

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

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Parking available