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Health care aide
Job detail
Salary 21.00 hourly / 32 to 40 hours per Week
Languages: English or French
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate or equivalent experience
Experience, 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting
- Urban area
- Willing to relocate
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Responsibilities
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
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Organized
- Reliability