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NOC Code: 4412
Employment Terms: Full Time Permanent
Duties and Responsibilities:
Plan and prepare meals and special diets including shopping for food
Assist with personal care such as bathing, personal hygiene, dressing and undressing
Assist to and from doctors appointment including managing medications
Assist with life management including shopping, banking and coordinating personal schedule
Assist and accompany to and from social events and recreational activities
Perform light housekeeping, including laundry, making beds and cleaning
Perform other related duties as required
Working Hours: 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 2 fixed days off on weekends
Wage: $15.00/hour
Work Setting & Location:
In a private home in Cut Knife, Saskatchewan.
Recipient of care are elderly husband and wife suffering from early stages of dementia and declining lung function who requires a caregiver on a live-in basis. Accommodation is available to the caregiver at NO CHARGE.
Employment Requirements:
Education: Secondary school education is required
Work Experience: Home management experience is an asset but not required
Note: - Please include references of former employers to your resumes
- Applicants must be Non-Smoker
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Not required
Specific Skills
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Provide personal care
- Provide companionship
- Prepare, cook and serve meals
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning
- Mend clothing and linens
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Assume full responsibility for household (in absence of householder)
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Assist clients to walk
- Aid clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
Type of Clientele
- Elderly