Support Worker

_Personal Support Worker and Support Worker_
**Visiting Angels® Inc**. is Canadian owned and operated since 1997. Visiting Angels is committed to quality healthcare and is always anticipating the changing needs of our clients.

Visiting Angels® is a 24 hours on call health care agency, we are looking for individuals who can travel throughout the Niagara Region, sometimes on short notice. Areas we service include Grimsby, Beamsville, Vineland, Port Colborne, Niagara Falls, St Catharines, Welland, Fort Erie, Niagara-on-the-Lake and all the other cities in the Niagara Region.

Visiting Angels® Inc. offers services to seniors, chronically and terminally ill persons, individuals with acquired brain injuries, persons with developmental and physical disabilities, childcare for children of all ages and more specialized services based on client need.

Visiting Angels® Inc. provides: respite and palliative care, relief staffing, emergency childcare, vocational evaluation, life skill training and personal care including feeding, and bathing, and homecare including meal preparation, housekeeping, and aid with other daily living activities. Our staff also will provide companionship and support at appointments.

College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
1 year to less than 2 years
- or equivalent experience

**Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)**
- **First Aid Certificate**:

- **CPR Certificate**:

- Certificate of Conduct
- **Personal Support Worker Certificate**:

- Health Care Aide Certificate
- Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Certificate
- Community disability studies Certificate
- Mental health first aid Certificate
- Behaviour management Certification
- Developmental services worker (DSW) Training
- Geriatric Certificate
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course

**Weight Handling**
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

**Specific Skills**
- Shop for food and household supplies
- Provide personal care
- Provide companionship
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
- Plan therapeutic diets and menus
- Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
- Launder clothing and household linens
- Collect specimens
- Assist clients in water (i.e. pool)
- Feed or assist in feeding
- Demonstrate infant care to new parents
- Assist in regular exercise, e.g., walk
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene

**Target Audience**
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Young adults
- Toddler to pre-school (1 - 3 years)
- Terminally ill
- School age (6 - 12 years)
- Over 12 years
- Newborn (including expecting mother)
- Infant (3 months - 11 months)
- Elderly
- Convalescent
- Persons with physical disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Persons with an intellectual disability
- Persons with a disability
- Females
- Males
- Kindergarten age (4 - 5 years)
- Persons with Alzheimer's disease

**Security and Safety**
- Bondable
- Immunization records
- Tuberculosis test
- Criminal record check
- Reference required
- Vulnerable sector check

**Work Site Environment**
- Non-smoking

**Transportation/Travel Information**
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel regularly
- Willing to travel overnight
- Travel expenses not paid by employer

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Work Location Information**
- Rural area
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Urban area
- Remote location
- Various locations

**Personal Suitability**
- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Judgment
- Reliability
- Organized
- Punctuality

**Job Types**: Part-time, Casual

**Salary**: $18.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- On call
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- St. Catharines, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- Will you travel to support clients within the Hamilton-Niagara Region?

**Experience**:

- supportive care: 1 year (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)
- Overnight Shift (preferred)