- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 35 hours per week
- Education : Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience : 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting
- Work in employer's / client's home
- Employer's home
Tasks
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Administer medications
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
- Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
- Change non-sterile dressings
- Collect specimens
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Mend clothing and linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Plan therapeutic diets and menus
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Cook
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
First Aid Certificate
Security and safety
Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Repetitive tasks
Personal suitability
- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Patience
- Honesty
Support for persons with disabilities
Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
Support for newcomers and refugees
Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and / or refugees
Support for youths
Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
Support for Veterans
Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans
Support for Indigenous people
Provides cultural competency training and / or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
Support for mature workers
Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example : adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)
Supports for visible minorities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities