Health Care Assistant

Job Requirements

Languages

English or French

Education

• College or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Willing to relocate

• Nursing home/home for the aged

• Public or community health centre ; University or college

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

• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Credentials

Certificates, licenses, memberships, and courses

• First Aid Certificate

• Health Care Aide Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment; Work under pressure

• Repetitive tasks; Physically demanding; Attention to detail

• Standing for extended periods; Combination of sitting, standing, walking

• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Client focus; Dependability; Efficient interpersonal skills

• Excellent oral communication; Flexibility; Initiative

• Interpersonal awareness; Judgement; Organized; Reliability; Team player