medical orderly

Responsibilities

Tasks

• 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
• 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
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training
• CPR Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Vulnerable sector check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Organized
• Team player
• Patience