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Successful applicants shall be involved in the caring for the elderly
and assisting them with all activities of daily living including but not
limited to feeding, bathing, and toileting. In addition the applicants
will also perform general cleaning duties.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
Specific Skills
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Lift, turn or massage patients
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Answer call signals
Work Setting
- Nursing or convalescent home
- Home for the aged
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Criminal record check (abstract)