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Job Details
Language: English

Work setting: Employer's home

work site environment: Non-smoking

Work hours: 30 hours per week

Credentials: CPR/First Aid Certificate, Personal Support Worker Certificate

Weight handling: Up to 23 kg

Personal suitability: Patience, Reliability, Client focus, Punctuality, Organized

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Job Description
• Provide personal care, companionship, supervision and home support to an elderly individual with Alzheimer's disease and chronic health conditions in the client's private residence.

• Provide supervision and attentive support to help ensure the client's safety and well-being, particularly when the client experiences confusion or disorientation.

• Maintain a safe, calm and familiar daily routine and provide reminders, reassurance and redirection when needed.

• Provide personal care and assistance with daily routines, including reminders and guidance regarding personal hygiene, grooming and dressing, while encouraging the client to maintain independence whenever safely possible.

• Assist the client with walking and regular light exercise and provide mobility assistance as required.

• Administer medications according to prescribed schedules and instructions, and provide reminders to help ensure medications are taken as directed.

• Accompany the client to medical appointments and assist with scheduling, transportation and other routine medical visits as required.

• Prepare and serve nutritious meals and snacks according to the client's dietary needs and preferences.

• Provide companionship and engage the client in appropriate recreational and social activities and conversation.

• Observe changes in the client's behaviour, memory, mobility, eating habits or general condition and report significant changes or concerns to the family.

• Perform light housekeeping duties, including cleaning the client's living areas, washing dishes, doing laundry and changing household linens.

• Shop for groceries and household supplies as required.

• Follow established household routines and family instructions concerning the client's care, medications and safety.