health care assistant

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• Bachelor's degree
• or equivalent experience
  
  

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
  
  

Responsibilities

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
  
  

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Nursing Aide Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate
  
  

Additional information

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
  
  

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence
• Own transportation
  
  

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Attention to detail
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking
  
  

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player