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Health Care Assistant

Employer

ALWAYS BEST CARE SENIOR SERVICES

Date Posted

September 04, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $30.00 to $38.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 4  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Sep 25, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

ALWAYS BEST CARE SENIOR SERVICES

Languages

English

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Work setting

  • Home care and visiting care agency
  • Various locations
  • Work in employer's/client's home

Tasks

  • Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
  • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
  • Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Perform other duties related to personal care
  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

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

Employment terms options

Evening

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Employment terms options

  • Shift
  • Flexible hours
  • Morning
  • Day
  • Weekend

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Health Care Assistant is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Nurse Aides, Orderlies and Patient Service Associates
SOCIAL

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

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

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

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