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Job Details

Personal Support Worker - Home Support

Employer

Canaan Care

Date Posted

November 06, 2025

Languages

Bilingual
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $21.40 to $29.80 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 40 to 50 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 5  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Dec 31, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Canaan Care

Languages

Bilingual

Education

  • Other trades certificate or diploma
  • or equivalent experience

Asset languages

  • Swahili
  • Yoruba
  • Akan

Work site environment

Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Remote location
  • Various locations
  • Willing to relocate

Tasks

  • Administer bedside and personal care
  • 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
  • Shop for food and household supplies
  • Prepare and serve nutritious meals
  • Cook

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Mental health first aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate
  • Personal Support Worker Certificate

Target audience

  • Persons with Alzheimer's disease
  • Adults
  • Elderly
  • Over 12 years
  • Persons with a disability
  • Persons with mental health disabilities
  • Persons with physical disabilities
  • Young adults

Experience with special needs children

Assistance with mobility

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Confidential security clearance
  • Basic security clearance
  • Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Sitting
  • Walking

Weight handling

  • Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
  • Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
  • Up to 23 kg (50 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 shift or on-call work?
  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Employment terms options

  • Shift
  • Morning
  • Night
  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

Health care plan

Financial benefits

Life insurance

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Team building opportunities
  • Parking available

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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

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