health care assistant
Right at Home Canada
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Calgary, Alberta
Contract type: Full time

Overview
Languages
English
Education
7 months to less than 1 year
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
Tasks
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
Security and safety
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
- or equivalent 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.
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Hospital or home for the aged
- Hospital/medical facility or clinic
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Public or community health centre
- Rehabilitation centre and special health institution
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
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Nursing Aide Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Security and safety
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Immunization records
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
- Tuberculosis test
- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
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