Health Aide

Job Description

Tasks

• Administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
• Assist health care professionals
• Assist physicians in the assessment of patients
• Develop information materials for patients
• Follow through on treatment programs with patients
• Maintain prescription records
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
• Record vital signs
• Clean and dress wounds
• Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
• Collect statistics
• Maintain supplies
• Maintain inventory of equipment
• Document patient rehabilitation progress
• Perform general clerical duties
• Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
• Process files and paperwork
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Maintain inventory of supplies
• Collect specimens
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
• Work with minimal supervision
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
• Transport patients between care facilities

Benefits

Financial benefits

• Bonus

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Learning/training paid by employer
• On-site amenities
• Other benefits