health care aide

Safe Management Group Inc.; Oakville; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oakville is seeking dedicated personal support workers to assist with patient care. The role involves various responsibilities including personal care, monitoring vital signs, and ensuring patient comfort. Candidates must possess relevant certifications and demonstrate a strong client focus. This is an on-site position, and applicants should be prepared for physically demanding tasks.

Qualifications

• First Aid and CPR Certificates required.

Responsibilities

• Perform duties related to patient care and comfort.
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature, and pulse.
• Transport patients between care facilities.

Skills

Client focus

Dependability

Efficient interpersonal skills

Organized

Reliability

Patience

Education

College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years

Job description

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
  
  

Experience

7 months to less than 1 year

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Perform other duties related to personal care
• 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
• 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
• Collect specimens
  
  

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
  
  

Additional information

Security and safety

• Immunization records
• Vulnerable sector check
  
  

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Physically demanding
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
  
  

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
  
  

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Organized
• Reliability
• Patience
  
  

Employment groups

This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups:

Support for persons with disabilities

• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  
  

Support for newcomers and refugees

• Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
  
  

Support for youths

• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
  
  

Support for Veterans

• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
  
  

Support for Indigenous people

• Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
  
  

Support for mature workers

• Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
  
  

Supports for visible minorities

• Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities