5320-Healthcare Assistants and Other Personal Care Workers

Tasks include:

• providing care, support and treatment to patients and residents of medical, rehabilitative and residential care facilities as per treatment plans established by medical, nursing and other health professionals
• assisting patients with personal and therapeutic care needs such as personal hygiene, feeding, dressing, physical mobility and exercise, communication, taking oral medications and changing dressings
• positioning, lifting and turning patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or on movable beds
• maintaining patients' environmental hygiene standards, such as cleaning patient rooms and changing bed-linen
• providing massage and other non-pharmacological pain relief measures, such as during pregnancy and labour
• observing patients? condition, responses and behaviour and reporting changes to a health professional
• providing clients and families with emotional support and information and advice on topics such as nutrition, hygiene, exercise, caring for infants, or adapting to disability or illness
• providing psychological support to clients such as through conversation or reading aloud
• planning, purchasing, preparing or serving meals to meet nutritional requirements and prescribed diets
• providing support to parents and care for newborns during the postpartum period
• scheduling and accompanying clients for appointments with medical doctors and other health professionals or performing other errands
• assisting therapists by guiding patients through their exercises during therehabilitation sessions, and holding individual or group therapy sessions with the
• patients after receiving the treatment plan from the therapists