personal care aide - home care

personal care aide - home care

Offer parameters
comfort keepers
$23 an hour
White Rock, BC, CA

Woke Type

temporary
part-time

About

  • Durée de l'emploi : Temporaire
  • Langue de travail : Anglais
  • Heures de travail : 80 hours bi-weekly
  • Education :
  • Expérience :

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Rural area
  • Urban area
  • Various locations
  • Work in employer's / client's home

Tasks

  • Administer bedside and personal care
  • Administer medications
  • Assist clients in water (i.e. pool)
  • 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
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Provide companionship
  • Provide personal care
  • Prepare and serve nutritious meals
  • Cook

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

  • CPR Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate

Target audience

  • Persons with Alzheimer's disease
  • Adults
  • Elderly
  • Females
  • Males
  • Persons with a disability
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Persons with physical disabilities
  • Terminally ill

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Sitting
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Work under pressure

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
  • Between 45 and 60 kg (100-132 lbs)

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?
  • Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
  • What is the highest level of study you have completed?
  • What is your current field of study?
  • What is your current level of study?

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Financial benefits

Pension plan

Long term benefits

Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Other benefits
  • Parking available

Support for newcomers and refugees

Supports newcomers and / or refugees with foreign credential recognition

Support for mature workers

  • Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example : flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
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