personal care provider - home care
Your 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.
- Provide companionship.
- Provide personal care.
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals.
- Cook.
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease.
- Elderly.
Requirements
Education College/CEGEP. or equivalent experience. Asset languages: Arabic.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Geriatric Certificate.
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course.
- Personal Support Worker Certificate.
Security and safety
- Criminal record check.
- Reference required.
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 to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Are you currently a student?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
2 years to less than 3 years.
Other
Work site environment Non-smoking.
Work setting Employer's home.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Walking.
- Work under pressure.
- Weight handling: Between 61 and 80 kg (133-176 lbs).
Employment terms options Evening.
Employment terms options Morning. Day. Weekend.