Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
Will train
Work setting
- 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
- 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
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
Additional information
Security and safety
- Basic security clearance
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits