health care aide

Jasper Crescent Care Home Ltd; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Jasper Crescent Care Home, a leading care facility in Vancouver, as a dedicated healthcare worker. You will provide essential support for patient needs, ensuring comfort and safety through various tasks like feeding, bathing, and monitoring vital signs. This role requires relevant certifications and a compassionate approach to elder care.

Qualifications

• Education from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year.
• Experience of 7 months to less than 1 year preferred.
• Must have First Aid and CPR certificates.

Responsibilities

• Supply and empty bed pans and bathe patients.
• Take patients' vital signs and feed them.
• Deliver messages between departments and maintain inventory.

Skills

Patient Care

First Aid

CPR

Education

College or CEGEP certificate

Job description

• Education : College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
• Experience : 7 months to less than 1 year

Work setting

Tasks

• Supply and empty bed pans
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Serve meal trays and feed 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
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Collect specimens
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Security and safety

• Criminal record check
• Immunization records
• Tuberculosis test

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking