Velma Home
Antigonish, NS
Posted 30 days ago
Job Details:
$26.00 / hour
Full-time
Entry Level
Overview
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year Work setting
- Room and board provided
- Work in employer's/client's home Tasks
- Administer bedside and personal care
- Administer medications
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
- Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
- Collect specimens
- 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
- Cook Target audience
- Elderly
- Females
- Persons with a disability Personal suitability
- Punctuality
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
- Honesty Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you live near the job location? Support for newcomers and refugees
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Does not require Canadian work experience Support for youths
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth Support for Veterans
- Recruits Veterans and other candidates with military experience through targeted hiring initiatives (for example: job fairs, outreach programs etc.) Support for Indigenous people
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations 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.)