home support worker
- Work Term : Permanent
- Work Language : English
- Hours : 30 hours per week
- Education : Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience : 1 to less than 7 months
Work site environment
- Non-smoking
- Scent free
Work setting
Work in employer's / client's home
Tasks
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Cook
- Travel with family on trips and assist with child supervision and housekeeping duties
- Tend to emotional well-being of children
- Take children to and from school and to appointments
- Supervise and care for children
- Organize, activities such as games and outings for children
- Maintain a safe and healthy environment in the home
- Instruct children in personal hygiene and social development
- Discipline children according to the methods requested by the parents
- Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
Target audience
Persons with an intellectual disability
Work experience with special needs students
Children with an intellectual disability
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Reference required
Transportation / travel information
- Willing to travel regularly
- Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
Repetitive tasks
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
- Honesty
- Excellent written communication
- Time management
Screening questions
Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
Support for persons with disabilities
Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example : ramps, elevators, etc.)
Support for newcomers and refugees
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and / or refugees
Support for youths
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
Support for Indigenous people
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
Support for mature workers
Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities