support services assistant - medical

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Employer details ProctoCan

Support Services Assistant - Medical

Job Details

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

Work setting: Home care and visiting care agency, Physician's office, Hospital/medical facility or clinic, Medical clinic, Health care institution, facility or clinic.

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment.
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort.
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse.
• 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.
• Transport patients between care facilities.
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
• Collect specimens.
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas.
• Schedule and confirm appointments.
• Perform administrative tasks.
• Ensure infection control.
• Administer medications.
• Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care.
• Provide wound and bandage care.
• Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients' condition.
• Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons.
• Provide patient and family education.
• Interview patients.
• Ensure that quality nursing care is provided to patients.
• Assist with record management.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years.

Certificates, Licences, Memberships, and Courses

• Continuing Care Assistant Certification
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Fast-paced environment.
• Work under pressure.
• Repetitive tasks.
• Physically demanding.
• Attention to detail.
• Standing for extended periods.
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
• Bending, crouching, kneeling.

Weight Handling

• Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs).

Personal Suitability

• Client focus.
• Dependability.
• Efficient interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral communication.
• Flexibility.
• Initiative.
• Interpersonal awareness.
• Judgement.
• Organized.
• Reliability.
• Team player.
• Patience.

Location

390 Steeles Avenue W suite 11 & 12 Thornhill, ON L4J 6X2

Salary

$22.00 to $30.00 per hour (to be negotiated) / 40 hours per week

Terms of Employment

Permanent employment, Full time, Day, Evening, Morning

Who Can Apply for This Job?

The employer accepts applications from:

• Canadian citizens and permanent or temporary residents of Canada
• Other candidates, with or without a valid Canadian work permit

Advertised Until

2025-05-22

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