Health care aide
Care24 Homecare& Support Services Grande Prairie, Alberta
Permanent
Full time
As soon as possible
Description
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- Nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide
- or equivalent experience
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Rural area
- Various locations
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- 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
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Interpersonal awareness
- Organized
- Reliability
- Patience
- Early morning
- Evening
- Flexible hours
- Morning
- Night
- To be determined
- Day
- Weekend
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
Salary: $23.00 hourly
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