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Job Details

Personal Support Worker - Home Support

Employer

Henrietta & Nnaemeka Onaga

Date Posted

April 04, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Calgary, AB
  • Earnings $22.00 hourly
  • Work Hours 40 to 45 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date May 04, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Henrietta & Nnaemeka Onaga

Languages

English

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Asset languages

Igbo

Work site environment

Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
  • Employer's home

Tasks

  • Administer medications
  • Assist clients in water (i.e. pool)
  • 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
  • Shop for food and household supplies
  • Plan trips
  • Co-ordinate recreation activities
  • Provide therapy

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • CPR Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Target audience

  • Adolescents
  • Over 12 years
  • Persons with a disability

Experience with special needs children

Assistance with mobility

Security and safety

Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Physically demanding
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Work under pressure

Weight handling

Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Patience
  • Honesty

Screening questions

Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Other benefits

  • On-site housing options
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)

Support for persons with disabilities

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees

Support for youths

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment

Support for Veterans

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans

Support for Indigenous people

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people

Support for mature workers

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers

Supports for visible minorities

Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Personal Support Worker - Home Support is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Visiting Homemakers
SOCIAL

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

Interest in compiling information to maintain client files and plan meals and special diets

objective

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

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

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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