personal support worker - home support
Education:
Other trades certificate or diploma. Health aide. Home health aide/home attendant. Nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide.
Work site environment:
Vehicles.
Work setting:
Work in employer's/client'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.
- Feed or assist in feeding.
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties.
- Provide companionship.
- Provide personal care.
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :
- CPR Certificate.
- First Aid Certificate.
- Health Care Aide Certificate.
- Personal Support Worker Certificate.
Target audience:
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease.
- Convalescent.
- Elderly.
- Persons with a disability.
- Persons with physical disabilities.
- Terminally ill.
Security and safety:
- Criminal record check.
- Reference required.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Physically demanding.
Weight handling:
Up to 23 kg (50 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 to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
Experience:
7 months to less than 1 year.
Employment terms options:
- Evening.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime available.
Workplace information:
On the road job.
Financial benefits:
Mileage paid.
Other benefits:
Variable or compressed work week.