Employment Information
- Post ID: 812357506
- Posted Date: Mar 20, 2025
- Closing Date: May 26, 2025
- Company: MACGOWAN NURSING HOMES LTD.
- Category: Healthcare & Social Workers
- Business Location:719 JOSEPHINE STREET, Wingham, Ontario N0G 2W0
- Total Views: 201
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 15 hours ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/812357506/ontario/wingham/personal-support-worker-nursing-care/
Job Details
- Experience: 1 month - 7 months
- Opening Positions: 1
- Remuneration: $25.15 per hour / 30 to 35 hours per week
- Commencement Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
- Assist with maintenance and repair of medical equipment
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- 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
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
- Collect specimens
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience