Overview
Languages
French
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Nursing home/home for the aged
Responsibilities
Tasks
- 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
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Experience and specialization
Policy and program experience
- Workplace training and development
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- 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
- Patience
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Night shift premium