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health care aide
Overview
Languages
English
Education
• Other trades certificate or diploma
Experience
Experience an asset
On the road
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work setting
• Home care and visiting care agency
Responsibilities
Tasks
• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
• Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
• Perform other duties related to personal care
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
• Supervise patients' exercise routines
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• Provide personal care
• Provide companionship
• Instruct patients regarding oral hygiene
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
• First Aid Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate
Additional information
Security and safety
• Criminal record check
• Vulnerable sector check
• Tuberculosis test
Work conditions and physical capabilities
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Personal suitability
• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
Benefits
Health benefits
• Dental plan
• Disability benefits
• Health care plan
Financial benefits
• Group insurance benefits
• Life insurance
Other benefits
• Other benefits
• Travel insurance
• Variable or compressed work week