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Live-In Caregiver - Seniors
Employer
Suma SamuelDate Posted
August 27, 2024Languages
English-
Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $15.00 to $20.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 44 hours per week
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Position Permanent Part Time Leading to Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Sep 24, 2024
Employer
Suma Samuel
Languages
English
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Non-smoking
- Scent free
Work setting
- Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
- Staff accommodation available
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Relocation costs covered by employer
- Employer'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
- Change non-sterile dressings
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Plan therapeutic diets and menus
- Provide companionship
- Provide personal care
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Cook
- Wash, iron and press clothing and household linens
- Tend to emotional well-being of children
- Take children to and from school and to appointments
- Supervise and care for children
- Organize, activities such as games and outings for children
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home
- Keep records of daily activities and health information regarding children
- Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
- Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
- Prepare infants and children for rest periods
- Help children with homework
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- CPR Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- Health Care Aide Certificate
- Personal Support Worker Certificate
Target audience
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease
- Elderly
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Supervise and care for multi-aged group of children
Work experience with special needs students
Children with an intellectual disability
Experience with special needs children
Assistance with mobility
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Basic security clearance
- Reference required
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Child welfare check
- Medical exam
- Drug test
Transportation/travel information
Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Overtime required
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
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 the advertised start date?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Health benefits
Health care plan
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Interest Codes
- SOCIAL
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Interest in serving - assisting clients by administering bedside and personal care such as aid in walking, bathing, personal hygiene and dressing and undressing; by feeding or assisting in feeding clients; and in demonstrating infant care to new parents
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling information to maintain client files and plan meals and special diets
- objective
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Interest in handling the preparation of meals and special diets; may perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes and making beds; may perform routine health-related duties such as change non-sterile dressings, administer medications and collect specimens under the direction of a home-care agency supervisor or nurse
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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