Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
Experience an asset
Work setting
- Remote location
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Pediatrics
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
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Maintain equipment
- Dispense and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by a physician
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Assess patients and perform or assist with interventions such as airway maintenance, line insertions, inductions and intubations
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Tracheostomy care training
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Child welfare check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Vulnerable sector check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Travel expenses not paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Patience
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Parking available