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HELP A SENIOR COUPLE WHO NEED SUPPORT THROUGH CANCER TREATMENT
Do you have personal or professional experience caring for an older adult?
Home Instead Senior Care is looking for a dedicated individual to provide care to a senior couple in Weyburn. Build a relationship with a lovely couple, a retired farmer (84) and retired nurse/homemaker (79) in their home in Weyburn. Enhance the lives of these seniors and support their family by providing a variety of non-medical services that allow the couple to remain in their home with dignity, care and compassion.
DUTIES include, but are not limited to:
Companionship and conversation - encouragement, support
Assisting with light housekeeping
Assisting with meal preparation
Assisting with daily activities, appointments, preparing for events on the calendar
Assisting with personal care: ambulation, transfers, grooming, bathing, toileting and incontinence care, medication reminders
Driving escort on outings, appointments and errands
REQUIREMENTS:
Preference for candidates with health care certificates: RN, LPN, CCA
Ability to treat and care for seniors and their property with dignity and respect
Ability to communicate with couple and family in a friendly and congenial manner
Ability to lift, push, pull 25 pounds
Ability to bend, twist, stoop, kneel & reach
Ability to drive the couple to Regina for medical appointments, using clients' vehicle
Provision of Criminal Record Check and Driving History, evidence of valid drivers license
SCHEDULING:
Starting with 6 hours per week (mornings/afternoons) and increasing (potentially to 20 hours or more per week) over the coming months.
Preference for candidates who can provide a variety of: weekday/weekends (morning/afternoon/evening/overnights)
Each visit will be a minimum of 3 hours (some longer shifts)
TRAINING:
Training and on the job support provided
Essential Skills
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Health Care Aid Certificate
- Nursing Aid Certificate
Type of Clientele
- Terminally ill
- Seniors
Work Location Information
- Work in employer's/client's home
Security and Safety
- Bondable
- Criminal record check (abstract)
- Driving record check (abstract)