Health care aide
YARROW LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Experience
1 to less than 7 months
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- 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
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- 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
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
- Adult Abuse Registry check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
Benefits
Health benefits
- Health care plan
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement