TWO PERSONAL SUPPORT AIDES- IN HOME CAREGIVERS REQUIRED

A professional family in MARKHAM, ON requires TWO experienced LOCAL Caregivers/Personal Support Aides/ Home Support Workers with recent relevant, paid senior care work experience to care for a wheel- chair bound senior lady in her mid-seventies with early stage of vascular dementia and assist her with her Activities of Daily Living.

Employers: M. Rai  & S. Rai

Major intersection: Warden Ave. & 16^th Avenue

Days Off: Three Days Off Per Week

Optional Accommodation (Free furnished room with a lock on the door for privacy and all meals and utilities free) available at no charge on a live in basis.

*Please Note: This is not a condition of employment.

Care Duties and Responsibilities:

– Care for senior’s needs; supervise her activites, provide companionship and care, escort to doctor’s appointments when required
– Assist with her mobility and her  Activities of Daily Living viz: bathing, toileting, dressing, feeding etc.
– Cook simple meals, supervise her medications  and ensure that senior has her meals and medications  on time
– Tend to her emotional well being; provide companionship and care
– Perform light housekeeping chores around senior’s needs and do her laundry, fold and keep away her clothes
– Assume full responsibility for household in absence of parents
– Keep senior’s living areas neat and clean, hygienic and organized
– Maintain a safe, secure and organized home environment

Start Date

As soon as Possible

Salary

$18. TO $19. Per Hour for a 30  Hour work week 

Education Requirements

-Must have Canadian High School Diploma, have completed High School or have equivalent education from elsewhere.

Essential Skills

Must have good interpersonal and communication skills. Must be warm, loving, kind, Honest, trustworthy, reliable, punctual, flexible, neat and clean and organized and must be able to assist senior with lift and transfer in and out of wheelchair and must have initiative and be able to bond well with senior and keep her safe and follow her routine.

Experience

– Must have One to Two years of Full-time, Paid, relevant Seniorcare Work Experience within the last three years.

Languages

Must Be Fluent In English

Weight Handling

-Should be able to handle upto 10 kgs

Work Settings

-Urban Setting
-Work in Employers' house

Additional Skills

Must be warm, loving, kind, competent, mature and genuinely fond of working with seniors and be able to follow their routine and keep them engaged with appropriate activities, be able to help them with their Activities of Daily Living and support their emotional well-being

How To Apply

Please e-mail detailed and updated resume with recent, verifiable references and a recent Police Clearance to: meerapriya_rai@yahoo.ca