kitchen helper

Work Setting

• Rural area
• Nursing home/home for the aged

Tasks

• Operate dishwashers to wash dishes, glassware and flatware
• Sanitize and wash dishes and other items by hand
• Scour pots and pans
• Clean and sanitize kitchen including work surfaces, cupboards, storage areas, appliances and equipment
• Handle and store cleaning products
• Remove kitchen garbage and trash
• Wash, peel and cut vegetables and fruit
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Serve meal trays and feed patients
• Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
• Collect specimens
• Bathe, dress and groom patients
• Answer call signals
• Resolve conflict situations
• Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
• Housekeeping activities
• Food preparation
• Supply and empty bed pans
• Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
• Administer first aid in emergency situations
• Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
• Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort

Certificates, Licences, Memberships, and Courses

• CPR Certificate
• First Aid Certificate

Security and Safety

• Criminal record check
• Child abuse registry check

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Work under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Weight Handling

• Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal Suitability

• Client focus
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Reliability
• Team player
• Initiative
• Flexibility
• Excellent oral communication
• Interpersonal awareness
• Dependability
• Judgement