Health Care Assistant

  • Arva
  • Diversified Dynamic Care Limited

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

  • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years Work setting :

  • Home care and visiting care agency

  • Hospital or home for the aged

  • Nursing home/home for the aged

  • Public or community health centre 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

  • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments

  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms

  • Supervise patients' exercise routines

  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas

  • Maintain inventory of supplies

  • 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 between care facilities

  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher

  • Answer call signals

  • Collect specimens

  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

  • Work Term: Permanent

  • Work Language: English

  • Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week