Activity Worker – Health Support Services in Ottawa

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
• Assist health care professionals
• Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and/or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
• Follow through on treatment programs with patients
• Help orthopedic surgeons
• Help physical therapists
• Maintain inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
• Maintain prescription records
• Operate ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments
• Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
• Record test results and medications given by ophthalmologists
• Set up and dismantle equipment
• Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
• Lay out surgical instruments
• Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
• Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
• Record information about donors
• Record vital signs
• Assist chiropractor with patient health education
• Clean and dress wounds
• Label and process donated blood
• Operate and maintain sterilization equipment and instrumentation for re-use according to standardized safety practices
• Prepare solutions for preservation of specimens
• Process claims such as health insurance or workers compensation
• Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
• Remove casts, sutures and pins
• Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
• Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
• Collect statistics
• Maintain supplies
• Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
• Maintain inventory of equipment
• Monitor donors throughout procedure
• Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
• Document patient rehabilitation progress
• Perform general clerical duties
• Prepare and maintain cleanliness of collection areas
• Process files and paperwork
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Take earmold impressions and fit and adjust hearing instruments
• Take patients’ general medical and ophthalmic history
• Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
• Order supplies and equipment
• Organize and maintain inventory