Description
Successful applicants will be required to provide aid and assistance
to the elderly in all general activities of daily living including but not
limited to bathing, feeding and toilieting. In addition the applicants
will be required to perform general cleaning duties including
resident laundry.
Skills and Abilities
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Bondable
Work Setting
- Home for the aged
Essential Skills
- Significant use of memory
- Continuous learning
- Finding information
- Job task planning and organizing
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Working with others
- Oral communication
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Document use
- Reading text
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Manual dexterity
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Fast-paced environment
Additional Skills
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Supply and empty bed pans
Specific Skills
- Answer call signals
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Collect specimens
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
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