Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations, provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. They provide care in the client’s residence, where they may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed.

Job Duties:
Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption Administer bedside and personal care to clients such as aid in ambulation, bathing, personal hygiene, and dressing and undressing Plan and prepare meals and special diets, and feed or assist in feeding clients May perform routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressings, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of home care agency supervisor or nurse May perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes and making beds.

Required languages: English

Education level: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate or equivalent experience

Required skills: Oral Communication: Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Coordinating, Instructing, Monitoring, Time Management, Management of Material Resources, Operation Monitoring of Machinery and Equipment, Writing, Numeracy

Additional skills / Assets Teaching and Instruction

Closest intersection: V5S 4K5