Provide culturally safe personal support by respecting residents’ identities, languages, values, and lived experiences throughout daily care.

The Personal Support Worker builds positive interactions while delivering respectful, person-centered assistance. You will adapt routines to resident preferences, communicate with families and coworkers, and recognize changes in physical, cognitive, emotional, and expressed needs. Accurate records support continuity and planning.

Key Responsibilities:

- Adapt care to language, faith, cultural practices, and preferences
- Protect resident dignity, privacy, autonomy, and respectful relationships
- Recognize and report changes in mood, skin, mobility, or intake
- Follow precautions, PPE requirements, and outbreak measures




- Identify risks and follow emergency procedures and drills

Requirements:

- Ability to provide safe, respectful, person-centered care
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Experience documenting care notes and flowsheets electronically
- Current Vulnerable Sector Check or willingness to obtain
- Ability to complete required testing, references, and vaccine proof

Combine culturally protected communication, careful observation, and accurate documentation to uphold resident choice, dignity, and wellbeing every shift.

📌 Culturally Safe Personal Support Worker (Ottawa)
🏢 Cardinal Creek Residence
📍 Ottawa