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Health Care Aide
Employer
Chinook Mall Medical ClinicDate Posted
April 11, 2025Languages
English-
Location Calgary, AB
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Earnings $24.00 hourly
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Work Hours 35 to 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date May 16, 2025
Employer
Chinook Mall Medical Clinic
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Home care and visiting care agency
- Rural area
- Various locations
Tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- 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
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Weight handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Patience
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Workplace information
On the road job
Financial benefits
Night shift premium
Long term benefits
Maternity and parental benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site recreation and activities
Support for persons with disabilities
Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
Support for youths
Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
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Interest Codes
- SOCIAL
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Interest in assisting hospital staff by carrying messages, reports, requisitions and specimens from one department to another; in providing comfort to patients by answering call signals, making beds and maintaining patients' rooms; in assisting patients with menu selection; and in setting-up and providing leisure activities for patients, and accompanying patients on outside recreational activities
- METHODICAL
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Interest in copying routine procedures to provide basic patient care, supervise patients' exercise routines, transport patients in wheelchairs and stretchers, and supply and empty bed pans; in maintaining inventory of supplies; in reporting or recording fluid intake or output; and in observing or monitoring patients' status and document patient care on charts
- objective
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Interest in operating medical equipment to take blood pressure, temperature and pulse; in collecting specimens such as urine, faeces and sputum; in administering suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas; and in performing other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff; may perform maintenance tasks such as assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, clean or sterilize equipment, maintain and repair equipment and assemble, set-up and operate equipment
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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