Acupuncture Assistant

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- Health services/allied health/health sciences, general
- Health/medical physics
- Health aide
- Acupuncture and oriental medicine
- or equivalent experience
**Tasks**:

- Assist during assessment of patients and carry out treatment programs and develop materials for use with patients
- 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
- Set up and dismantle equipment
- Clean and maintain equipment
- Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
- Lay out surgical instruments
- Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
- Clean and dress wounds
- Maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
- Maintain supplies
- Maintain inventory of equipment
- Assist chiropractor with physical examinations
- Document patient rehabilitation progress
- Perform various administrative functions
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- 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
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player