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Job Order #: 5431267

NOC: 6471
Employer Name:
Home Instead
Wage/Salary Info:
$20-$22 per hour
Posted Date:
30-Apr-2015
Location:
WEYBURN
 
# of Positions:
3
Employment Terms:
Part Time
Length of Employment:
Ongoing
Experience:
10+ Years
Apply By:
15-May-2015
How to Apply?:
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Employer Name:
Home Instead
Contact Name:
Karen Charyna
Contact Email:
Karen.charyna@homeinstead.com
Employer Website:
www.homeinstead.com/3023


Description

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

 

Skills and Abilities

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)

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