home support worker

Nurse Next Door; Toronto; On-site; CAD 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Nurse Next Door in Toronto is seeking compassionate caregivers to provide bedside and personal care to elderly clients at the client’s home or at designated care locations. You will work on site across various locations, delivering respectful, patient-centered support.

Ideal candidates have a secondary school graduation certificate and 7 months to less than 1 year of related experience. Strong punctuality, dependability, excellent oral communication, and organized, honest interpersonal skills

Qualifications

• Experience required: 7 months to less than 1 year in care or related field.
• On-site work at multiple locations; no remote option.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Punctuality

Dependability

Interpersonal skills

Excellent oral communication

Flexibility

Judgement

Organized

Honesty

Education

Secondary school graduation certificate

Job description

Overview

Languages

• English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

7 months to less than 1 year

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Non-smoking

Work setting

• Various locations

Responsibilities

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

Experience and specialization

Target audience

• Elderly

Additional information

Personal suitability

• Punctuality
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Organized
• Honesty

Employment groups

This employer promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including those self-identifying as a member of these groups:

Support for youths

• Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth