Personal Support Worker – #4449 -S
Visiting Angels Canada
At Visiting Angels Canada, our goal is to help provide our clients with as much independence as possible, to provide comfort and enhance quality of life. We choose to provide services with kindness, sensitivity and understanding. Our clients are people first. We are seeking Personal Support Workers. If you are pursuing certification as a PSW or you are already a certified PSW, we want to hear from you! Hours/shifts are flexible.
Visiting homemakers’ responsibility is to provide home and personal care to individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption. The care provided consists of bedside personal care, ambulation, bathing and personal hygiene and housekeeping. The staff may be required to plan, prepare and serve meals and sometimes to prepare special diets. Other tasks that are part of the services we offer are routine housekeeping, laundry, washing dishes, vacuuming, making beds, dusting, wiping walls, cleaning the fridge, stove and other appliances. We offer elderly and convalescent clients with companionship and personal care in their home, nursing home or hospital under general direction of the agency supervisor or family members. We perform and assist with infant care for new parents, work with clients that have acquired brain injuries and assist them with their daily living skills, as well as care for children, usually on an emergency or temporary basis.
Specific Skills:
- Prepare, cook and serve meals
- Plan menus for special diets
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Launder clothing and household linens; perform light housekeeping and cleaning
- Provide personal care; provide companionship
- Feed or assist in feeding; assist clients to walk
Requirements:
- The PSW/HCA will accept responsibility for his or her own actions
Assist Visiting Angels ® Inc. in determining your individual skills and specialties - Knowledge of client’s rights and responsibilities
- Operate safely and competently at all times
- Accept assignments according to skills and qualifications
- Report to assignments on time
- Attend staff development programs
- Inform office staff of your availability
- Provide a yearly medical report on self
- Provide a yearly police clearance
- Communicate problems and concerns with Visiting Angels ® Inc. office
- Inform Charge Nurse and our office of clients’ needs
- Comply with Visiting Angels ® Inc. dress code
Work Conditions & Physical Capabilities:
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking and lifting
Essential Skills:
- Reading text, document use, numeracy, writing, oral communication, working with others, problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, job task planning and organizing, significant use of memory, finding information, computer use, continuous learning
Please apply with resume and cover letter.
