Job details
- JobBank Id: 42608777
- JobSeekr Id: 326575
- Activity Worker – Health Support Services
- Ottawa, ON
- Full time
- Embassy West Senior Living
- $18.00
- 40 hours per week
Overview
Languages
English
Education
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Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
1 to less than 7 months
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
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