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Job Details

Personal Support Worker - Home Support

Employer

Iris Project

Date Posted

October 16, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location High Prairie, AB
  • Earnings $20.50 hourly
  • Work Hours 2 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Part Time Leading to Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Nov 06, 2026
Job Requirements

Employer

Iris Project

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Remote location
  • Rural area
  • Various locations
  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • 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
  • Prepare and serve nutritious meals
  • Cook

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • CPR Certificate
  • First Aid Certificate

Target audience

  • Persons with Alzheimer's disease
  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Convalescent
  • Elderly
  • Females
  • Kindergarten age (4 - 5 years)
  • Males
  • Over 12 years
  • Persons with a disability
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Persons with mental health disabilities
  • Persons with physical disabilities
  • School age (6 - 12 years)
  • Terminally ill
  • Toddler to pre-school (1 - 3 years)
  • Young adults

Experience with special needs children

Assistance with mobility

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Driving record check (abstract)
  • Vulnerable sector check

Transportation/travel information

Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Weight handling

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?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Morning
  • Night
  • On call

Experience

Experience an asset

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend

Workplace information

On the road job

Financial benefits

  • Mileage paid
  • Night shift premium

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Other benefits
  • Variable or compressed work week

Support for newcomers and refugees

Does not require Canadian work experience

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
  • Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
  • Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
  • Offers phased re-entry options for mature workers who are returning to work after retiring (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities)

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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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