Health Care Aide

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
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• 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 wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Initiative
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player