health care aide

Additional Information

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 80 hours bi-weekly
• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
• or equivalent experience

Work setting

• Urban area
• Work in employer's/client's home

Tasks

• 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
• 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

Security and safety

• Bondable
• Criminal record check
• Child Abuse Registry check
• Driver's validity licence check
• Immunization records
• Adult Abuse Registry check

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence
• Vehicle supplied by employer

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

Weight handling

• Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• 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?
• Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
• Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
• What is the highest level of study you have completed?

Other benefits

• Free parking available