Job description
Employer is Nadia P.
Business Location: Woodbridge, ON L4L 8J8
Location of work: Work in employer's home at Woodbridge, ON L4L 8J8
Major intersection: Weston Rd and Rutherford Rd
Title of position – Family caregiver
The caregiver's primary responsibility is to provide personal care, companionship, and mobility assistance to an 82-year-old elderly gentleman who uses a cane and requires support with mobility-related activities. The caregiver will also provide general supervision and support within a household that includes two older children aged 13 and 18. The position requires a compassionate, physically capable individual who can assist the elderly client with daily living activities while maintaining a safe, healthy, and supportive home environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Elder Care and Mobility Assistance (Primary Duties)
- Provide personal care and companionship to an 82-year-old elderly client.
- Assist with mobility-related activities, including walking support, transfers, getting in and out of bed, navigating stairs, and other daily movements as required.
- Assist with bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, and other aspects of personal hygiene.
- Administer medications as directed.
- Assist with regular exercise programs, including supervised walks and physical activity.
- Monitor the client's well-being and report changes in physical or emotional condition to family members.
- Provide bedside care when required.
- Collect specimens as directed.
- Plan and prepare nutritious meals, including therapeutic diets if required.
- Shop for groceries and household supplies.
- Accompany the client to appointments and community activities when required. Maintain a safe, clean, and healthy home environment.
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties.
- Supervise and support two children aged 13 and 18.
- Accompany children to and from school, appointments, and activities as required.
- Support children's emotional well-being and social development while parents are away.
- Reinforce household rules and discipline according to parental instructions.
- Ability to safely assist an elderly individual with mobility and transfers.
- Ability to provide hands-on personal care and support with activities of daily living.
- Ability to lift, support, and assist a client weighing approximately 150 lbs when required as part of mobility assistance duties.
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, and perform physically demanding caregiving tasks throughout the workday.
Child Supervision and Family Support
- Supervise and support two children aged 13 and 18.
- Accompany children to and from school, appointments, and activities as required.
- Support children's emotional well-being and social development while parents are away.
- Reinforce household rules and discipline according to parental instructions.
Physical Requirements
Terms of employment: 30 hours/week, permanent, full-time, mornings, day, evening, with split shits and overtime if needed
Wages: $21 per hour
Public transportation is available
Contact Tatiana at tatiana@lawpoint.ca
Education required: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate /Completion of high school
Work experience required: 1 year to less than 2 years of previous caregiving experience
Language required to do the work: English
Criminal record check will be required
Other conditions: Live in/Live out is considered & is optional (this is NOT a condition of employment); staff accommodation available; optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis (this is NOT a condition of employment)
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Relocation costs (if any) will be covered by employer