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Support Worker - Social Services
Employer
Daphna Home Care and SupportsDate Posted
March 01, 2023Languages
English-
Location Grande Prairie, AB
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Earnings $16.00 to $17.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 4  Vacancies
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Closing Date Mar 31, 2023
Employer
Daphna Home Care and Supports
Languages
English
Education
- College/CEGEP
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Willing to relocate
Tasks
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Housekeeping activities
- Food preparation
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
- Conduct individual and group counselling sessions
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
- Assist clients/guests with special needs
- Accompany clients to appointments and social outings
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Provide personal care
- Provide companionship
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Administer medications
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
Security and safety
Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Overtime required
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Dependability
- Reliability
- Punctuality
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Long term benefits
Group insurance benefits
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Interest Codes
- SOCIAL
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Interest in consulting with social assistance recipients and pensioners to advise and aid them in locating and utitizing a variety of community resources; in referring clients to other social services; in counselling clients living in group homes and halfway houses and assisting in pre-release and release planning; in providing crisis intervention and emergency-shelter services; and in co-ordinating volunteer activities of community and social services organizations
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling information to participate in the selection and admission of clients to appropriate programs; to assess clients' relevant skill strengths and deficits; and in maintaining contact with other social service agencies and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall progress
- innovative
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Interest in assisting clients to sort out options and develop plans of action, and in implementing and organizing the delivery of life-skills workshops, substance-abuse treatment programs, behaviour management programs, youth services programs and other community and social service programs under the supervision of social workers and health care professionals
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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