Personal support worker – nursing care Permanent Full Time

Work setting

• Hospital or home for the aged

Responsibilities

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
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Answer call signals
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• CPR Certificate
• Health Care Aide Certificate

Additional information

Security and safety

• Bondable

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding

Weight handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player

Benefits

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan