Support Services Assistant – Medical

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 189884897
  • Open Date: April 29, 2025
  • Close Date: June 21, 2025
  • Organization: ProctoCan
  • Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
  • Business Location:390 Steeles Avenue W suite 11 & 12, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 6X2
  • Total Views: 200
  • Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
  • Last Updated: 5 hours ago
  • Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/thornhill/189884897/support-services-assistant-medical/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 2 years - 3 years
  • Job Vacancies: 2
  • Compensation: $22.00 to $30.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 hours per week
  • Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Apply by: email to [email protected]
  • Education: College certificate or diploma from 1 to 2 years

Job Description

Tasks

  • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment
  • Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
  • Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
  • Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Transport patients between care facilities
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals to determine patients’ needs
  • Collect specimens
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Perform administrative tasks
  • Ensure infection control
  • Administer medications
  • Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
  • Provide wound and bandage care
  • Monitor patients and advise physician of any changes in patients’ condition
  • Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
  • Provide patient and family education
  • Interview patients
  • Ensure that quality nursing care is provided to patients
  • Assist with record management

Experience and specialization

Computer and technology knowledge

  • Electronic medical records

Area of specialization

  • Medical unit

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Continuing Care Assistant Certification
  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate