health care aide

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

• Health Care Aide Certificate

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate

Additional Skills

• Serve meal trays and feed patients

• Make beds and maintain patients' rooms

• Maintain inventory of supplies

• 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

Work Setting

• Hospital or home for the aged

• Hospital/medical facility or clinic

• 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

Security and Safety

• Child abuse registry check

• Criminal record check

• Adult Abuse Registry

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Fast-paced environment

• Work under pressure

• Repetitive tasks

• Physically demanding

• Manual dexterity

• Attention to detail

• Combination of sitting, standing, walking

• Standing for extended periods

• Walking

• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Work Location Information

• Willing to relocate

Personal Suitability

• Initiative

• Effective interpersonal skills

• Flexibility

• Team player

• Excellent oral communication

• Client focus

• Interpersonal awareness

• Dependability

• Judgement

• Reliability

• Organized

Health benefits

• Health care plan

• Disability benefits

• Dental plan

• Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement

Long term benefits

• Life insurance

• Pension plan

• Other benefits

• Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

• On-site housing options

• Learning/training paid by employer

• Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)

• Team building opportunities

• Parking available

• Travel insurance

• Wellness program

Screening questions

• Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

• Are you willing to relocate for this position?

• Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?

• Do you have education in this field of employment?