Job Description:
Position Summary:
To assist with facilitating patient care and effective operations in the patient care area.
Education/Experience:
- Community College Diploma in a related health care or patient care discipline
- Dialysis Unit Assistant Certificate course required
- 1 year experience in inventory control in a health care setting preferred
- Experience or exposure to a dialysis unit is preferred
- Good interpersonal skills in communicating with patients, team and the public
Position Responsibilities:
- Maintain organized stock room and put away supplies from boxes (Wellington location)
- Assist patient service clerk with ordering supplies as required (Wellington location)
- Assisting patients to appropriate chairs and to waiting room
- Stringing and stripping of dialysis machines
- Assists in weighing patients and informing the weight to the nurse
- Putting the blood pressure cuff on patients
- Assists in obtaining blankets, pillows, ice and other items to enhance patient comfort
- Cleansing of reusable supplies
- Emptying of partially used concentrate and bicarbonate containers
- Preparation of patient treatment supplies for machines/ getting supplies ready at the bedside for the nurse
- Moving machines for acutes in the building and setting up those machines
- Checking the chlorine on the RO for the acute patients
- Checking the chlorine in the water room first thing in the morning
- Assisting with a Hoyer lifts or bedpans if needed as well as transferring patients.
- Holding needle sites at the end of treatment when required
Customer Service Responsibilities:
Model RVH Core Values: Excellence, Compassion, Collaboration, Accountability, Innovation
- Clarify the person’s needs
- Take responsibility for action
