Job Description

Ms. Huang’s family is hiring a caring, patient, and dependable Companion to provide personal care and companionship for her senior mother, and to ensure her safety and well-being. The ideal candidate will help enhance her mother’s quality of life by providing physical and emotional support in a respectful and friendly manner.

Responsibilities:
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
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
Prepare and serve nutritious meals
Care for pets

Experience: Over one year of experience caring for seniors.

Credentials: CPR Certificate and First Aid Certificate.

Work site environment: Non-smoking.

Work setting: Employer’s home.

Additional information:

Security and safety: Criminal record check; Reference required.

Work conditions and physical capabilities:
Bending, crouching, kneeling
Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Repetitive tasks

Required languages: English

Education level: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Required skills: Punctuality; Client focus; Dependability; Efficient interpersonal skills; Flexibility; Initiative; Organized; Reliability; Patience; Honesty

Additional skills / Assets: Chinese language as an asset

Closest intersection: Leslie St. and Major Mackenzie Dr.