personal care attendant - home care
- Work Term : Temporary
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 30 hours per week
- Education : Bachelor's degree
- Experience : 1 year to less than 2 years
- Health / health care administration / management
- Health aide
- Geriatric nurse / nursing
- Practical nursing, vocational nursing and nursing assistants, other
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
Non-smoking
Work setting
- Urban area
- 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
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Mend clothing and linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Shop for food and household supplies
Target audience
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease
- Elderly
- Persons with a disability
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with physical disabilities
Security and safety
- Basic security clearance
- Reference required
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
Weight handling
Between 45 and 60 kg (100-132 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
- Honesty
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
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