Overview

- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
- 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
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
Target audience
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease
- Adults
- Elderly
- Males
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
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 for shift or on-call work?




- 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?
Employment terms options
- Evening
- Shift
- Day
- Overtime available
Other advantages
- Free parking available
Support for newcomers and refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Does not require Canadian work experience
Support for youths
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
Support for Indigenous people
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
Support for mature workers
- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
Supports for visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)

📌 Home support worker (Mississauga)
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📍 Mississauga