Job Description

The main activities and tasks that Home support workers, caregivers have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption
Administer bedside and personal care to clients such as aid in ambulation, bathing, personal hygiene, and dressing and undressing
Plan and prepare meals and special diets, and feed or assist in feeding clients
May perform routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressings, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of home care agency supervisor or nurse
May perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes and making beds.

Required languages: English

Education level: High School Graduate Certificate

Required skills: Home Support Worker, Personal Support Worker

Additional skills / Assets: Personal Support Worker Skills

Closest intersection: Hillmount Avenue and Bathurst Street