continuing care assistant

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year

Work setting:

• Urban area
• Nursing home / home for the aged

Tasks:

• Supply and empty bed pans
• Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Weigh, lift, turn and position 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
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• Collect specimens
• Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate

Security and safety:

• Basic security clearance

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Physically demanding
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Standing for extended periods
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Walking
• Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Personal suitability:

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Initiative
• Interpersonal awareness
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player

Availability: Are you available for shift or on-call work? Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?