Health Care Aide

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Supply and empty bedpans
• 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
• Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting up and operating job-related equipment
• Transport patients in wheelchairs or stretchers
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• 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

Additional information

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgment
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Patience
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Who can apply for this job?

Only apply to this job if:

• You are a Canadian citizen, a permanent or a temporary resident of Canada.
• You have a valid Canadian work permit.

If you are not authorized to work in Canada, do not apply. The employer will not respond to your application.