Home health care worker

  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English or French
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Registered Apprenticeship certificate
  • Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
  • or equivalent experience

Work site environment

  • Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
  • Staff accommodation available
  • Urban area
  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Relocation costs covered by employer
  • Willing to relocate
  • Employer's home

Tasks

  • Administer medications
  • Launder clothing and household linens
  • Mend clothing and linens
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Plan therapeutic diets and menus
  • Shop for food and household supplies
  • Prepare and serve nutritious meals
  • Cook

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Certificate of Conduct
  • Health Care Aide Certificate
  • Personal Support Worker Certificate

Target audience

  • Adults
  • Convalescent
  • Males
  • Persons with a disability

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Walking
  • Work under pressure

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Punctuality
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Patience
  • Honesty

Screening questions

  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
  • Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
  • What is the highest level of study you have completed?
  • What is your current field of study?
  • What is your current level of study?

Health benefits

  • Health care plan

Long term benefits

  • Maternity and parental benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • On-site amenities
  • On-site housing options
  • On-site recreation and activities
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Parking available
  • Variable or compressed work week

Support for persons with disabilities

  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
  • Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
  • Does not require Canadian work experience

Support for youths

  • Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth

Support for Indigenous people

  • Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers

Support for mature workers

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination

Supports for visible minorities

  • Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
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Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC, Canada
CA$17.00 to CA$20.00 per hour

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