resident care aide - medical

• or equivalent experience

Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)

• First Aid Certificate

• CPR Certificate

• Personal Support Worker Certificate

• Health Care Aide Certificate

• Nursing Aide Certificate

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate

Additional Skills

• Serve meal trays and feed patients

• Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties

• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms

• Supply and empty bed pans

Weight Handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Work Setting

• Nursing home/home for the aged

Specific Skills

• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher

• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse

• Provide personal care

• Provide companionship

• Launder clothing and household linens

• Collect specimens

• Bathe, dress and groom patients

• Administer bedside and personal care

• Feed or assist in feeding

• Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene

• 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

Security and Safety

• Immunization records

• Tuberculosis test

• Criminal record check

• Reference required

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Repetitive tasks

• Attention to detail

• Combination of sitting, standing, walking

• Standing for extended periods

Work Location Information

• Staff accommodation available

• Willing to relocate

• Relocation costs covered by employer

Health benefits

• Disability benefits

• Dental plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement

Long term benefits

• Group insurance benefits

• Life insurance

• Other benefits