Education: College/CEGEP.
Work setting: Home care and visiting care agency. Various locations.
Tasks:
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort.
- Perform other duties related to personal care.
- Supply and empty bed pans.
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse.
- 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.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :
- First Aid Certificate.
- Nursing Aide Certificate.
- Health Care Aide Certificate.
Security and safety:
Transportation/travel information:
- Valid driver's licence.
- Own transportation.
- Own vehicle.
- Travel expenses not paid by employer.
Personal suitability:
- Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Patience.
Screening questions:
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
Employment terms options:
Experience:
- 1 year to less than 2 years.
Employment terms options:
- Shift.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
