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Health Care Aide

  • Paramount Care Nursing Agency

  • Fort Erie, ON

  • Posting Date: Mar 11, 2021

  • Expiry Date: Sep 07, 2021

  • Job ID: 15764

Expired FEATURED SPONSORED Full time Health Care

Job Description


Additional Skills

  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
  • Transport patients between care facilities

Work Setting

  • Home care and visiting care agency
  • Nursing home/home for the aged

Specific Skills

  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Supervise patients' exercise routines
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Answer call signals
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Sound discrimination
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal Suitability

  • Effective interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Reliability
  • Organized