personal support worker – nursing care

Education:

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.

Work setting:

Various locations.

Tasks:

• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse.
• Serve meal trays and feed patients.
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments.
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms.
• Supervise patients' exercise routines.
• Maintain inventory of supplies.
• Bathe, dress and groom patients.
• Transport patients between care facilities.
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas.
• Administer first aid in emergency situations.

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :

Health Care Aide Certificate.

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

• Work under pressure.
• Repetitive tasks.
• Physically demanding.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to distinguish between colours.
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
• Weight handling: Up to 45 kg (100 lbs).

Personal suitability:

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

Screening questions:

1. Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
2. Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
3. Do you have experience working in this field?.
4. Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.

Employment terms options:

• Early morning.
• Evening.

Experience:

1 year to less than 2 years.

Employment terms options:

• Shift.
• Morning.
• Day.
• Weekend.
• Overtime available.

Financial benefits:

As per collective agreement.