health care aide

HEART TO HEART HOME CARE SERVICES LTD.; Delta; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

HEART TO HEART HOME CARE SERVICES LTD. is seeking a Home Care Aide. The role involves providing essential care and support to patients in a home care and visiting environment. Successful candidates will assist with various tasks, including personal care, transportation, and administering basic medical support.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Supply and empty bed pans for patients.
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
• Bathe, dress, and groom patients.
• Administer first aid in emergency situations.

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Job description

• Education : Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
• Experience : 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Home care and visiting care agency

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
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients between care facilities
• 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