Health Care Aide

Work setting

• 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
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Collect specimens
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• Provide personal care
• Provide companionship
• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
• Launder clothing and household linens
• Administer bedside and personal care
• Feed or assist in feeding
• Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Nursing Aide Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate
• Personal Support Worker Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Immunization records
• Tuberculosis test
• Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement
• Life insurance

Other benefits

• Other benefits