Personal Support Aide - Home Aide

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
• Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
• Collect specimens
• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
• Provide companionship
• Provide personal care
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• 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
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Transport patients between care facilities

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• CPR Certificate
• First Aid Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Fast-paced environment
• Handling heavy loads
• Overtime required
• Physically demanding
• Repetitive tasks
• Sitting
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Work under pressure

Personal suitability

• Punctuality
• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player