Aide, Health Care

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
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Acute care nursing Certificate
• Geriatric Certificate
• Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Nursing Aide Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking

Personal suitability

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

Benefits

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement
• Bonus

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning/training paid by employer
• On-site amenities
• On-site housing options
• Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)