Patient care associate

Languages

English

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
• 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
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
• 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
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

  Additional Information

  Security and Safety

  • Bondable
  • Basic security clearance
  • Criminal record check

  Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Walking

  Personal Suitability

  • Dependability
  • Effective interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Initiative
  • Organized

  Additional requirements

  Screening questions

  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?