• or equivalent experience

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

• First Aid Certificate
• CPR Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate
• Nursing Aide Certificate

Additional Skills

• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Supply and empty bed pans
• Transport patients between care facilities

Weight Handling

• Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Work Setting

• Nursing home/home for the aged

Specific Skills

• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Collect specimens
• 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

• Immunization records
• Tuberculosis test
• Criminal record check

Transportation/Travel Information

• Own transportation
• Valid driver’s licence

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Work Location Information

• Urban area

Personal Suitability

• Initiative
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Team player
• Excellent oral communication
• Client focus
• Interpersonal awareness
• Dependability
• Judgement
• Reliability
• Organized