Patient Care Associate

  • Caledon
  • Sumanjit Singh

or equivalent experience

Work setting :

  • Work in employer's/client's home

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
  • 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
  • Transport patients between care facilities
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals
  • Collect specimens
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :

  • First Aid Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Security and safety :

  • Bondable
  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities :

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Walking

Personal suitability :

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Initiative
  • Organized

Screening questions :

  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?