Medical Orderly

**Work Setting**:

- Nursing home/home for the aged

**Tasks**:

- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals
- Administer first aid in emergency situations

**Certificates, Licences, Memberships, and Courses**:

- Moving Patients Safety Principles (MPSP) training
- CPR Certificate

**Security and Safety**:

- Criminal record check

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking

**Personal Suitability**:

- Client focus
- Dependability
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?

**Financial benefits**:

- As per collective agreement
- Bonus
- Gratuities

**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week