Education: College/CEGEP.
Work setting: Hospital or home for the aged.
Tasks:
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities.
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment.
- 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.
- Bathe, dress and groom patients.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :
- Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training.
Security and safety:
- Bondable.
- Criminal record check.
- Child Abuse Registry check.
- Drug test.
- Immunization records.
- Vulnerable sector check.
- Eligible for professional liability insurance.
- Tuberculosis test.
Transportation/travel information:
- Travel expenses not paid by employer.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Work under pressure.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Sound discrimination.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Walking.
Weight handling:
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 for shift or on-call work?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
Experience:
- 1 year to less than 2 years.