surgical assistant

at  Dynamic Endoscopy Speciality Care

• Work Term: Permanent
• Work Language: English
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week
• Education: College/CEGEP
• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Repetitive tasks
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Sound discrimination
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Standing for extended periods
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

• Administer tests using equipment, instruct patients on test procedures and record results, and monitor, check and calibrate auditory equipment
• Assist during assessment of patients and carry out treatment programs and develop materials for use with patients
• Assist health care professionals
• Carry out treatment programs, under the direction of physiotherapists and/or occupational therapists, to rehabilitate patients with various injuries or disabilities
• Examine adult clients to assess hearing loss, recommend type of hearing instrument, take earmold impressions and perform follow-up examinations and readjustments
• Operate ophthalmic testing and measuring instruments, record test results and administer eye drops, ointments and medications as directed by ophthalmologists
• Position patients for treatments by chiropractor or machine
• Set up and dismantle equipment
• Apply and adjust casts, splints and bandages
• Clean and maintain equipment
• Compound, package and label pharmaceutical products
• Lay out surgical instruments
• Prepare and maintain equipment and supplies
• Reassemble equipment and assemble packs of sterile supplies and instruments for delivery to hospital departments
• Record information about donors
• Assist chiropractor with patient health education
• Clean and dress wounds
• Label and process donated blood
• Maintain prescription records and inventories of medications and pharmaceutical products
• Provide post donation care and donor reaction care
• Remove casts, sutures and pins
• Remove organs and tissue specimens from bodies in morgue as directed by pathologist
• Clean and sew up bodies for release to funeral homes
• Collect statistics
• Maintain supplies
• Connect treatment machines to patients, as directed by chiropractor
• Perform general clerical duties
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Take patients’ general medical and ophthalmic history
• Manage routine office functions including reception, telephone and booking appointments
• Organize and maintain inventory