health care aide

Heart to Heart Home Care Services; Delta; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A home care and visiting care agency is seeking dedicated healthcare aides to provide essential assistance to patients. Responsibilities include monitoring vital signs, serving meals, bathing, and transporting patients. Ideal candidates will have a secondary school graduation certificate and relevant experience. This is a permanent, full-time position requiring dedication and compassion in a supportive home care setting.

Qualifications

• 1 year to less than 2 years of experience in home care or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Job description

Overview

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

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

• Work Term : Permanent
• Work Language : English
• Hours : 40 hours per week