Support Worker

**This is NOT a company. I am a single individual hiring personal support workers. I am a 37 year old queer, trans, power wheelchair user with a g-tube and I live on my own with my cat.**

**Experience or certifications in disability support work are not required.**

There are 2 roles being recruited in this ad:
These are backup roles. To cover shifts when regular staff are sick or need time off. (typical shifts are 7 days a week 8:30am-2:30pm on weekdays and 5:30 pm-10:30pm)

(Start and end times change with my personal and work schedule.)
- **Starting training as soon as possible**_. _

**MUST BE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN HALIFAX/ HRM**

**Job location: South End Halifax**
- Do you like cooking, doing handy things, and keeping environments clean/tidy? _
- Do you have strong communication skills, can follow directions, and take initiative in managing a home? _
- Looking for flexible work?_

**Submit answers to the following questions along with your resume.**

Q: How does your experience (work, volunteer, or life experience) makes you a good fit for this position?

Q: What is your experience with disability community or experiences?

Q: What is your experience/ familiarity with queer and trans community or topics?
- **Description**_

This position is a support role for me (Andrew, the employer) to go about my daily life as a disabled person. It is important that the person in this role sees themselves as taking on a supportive, client-centered approach, taking my lead rather than “caring for me” and be open to doing things differently. On-the-job training will be provided by the employer.

This position is great for people who can work somewhat flex hours, enjoy working one-on-one, and want to be a part of building a culture of community and inclusion for people with disabilities.

**Location**: South end Halifax (by the Queen Street Sobeys)

**Responsibilities**:

- Tube feeding preparation and cooking and baking (gluten and dairy free). _Including_ _helping with a food blog_
- Accompaniment on trips for appointments, errands (i.e. grocery shopping), recreational and social events using the Carshare, taxi or Access-a-Bus.
- General house cleaning, organization, and laundry.
- Support with positioning, transfers, physio exercises and stretching.
- Providing assistance preparing for the day and nighttime with bathing, dressing, and personal grooming.
- Administrative support
- Assisting with medication management. (Crushing tablets and administering through a g tube. Preparing medicinal marijuana.)

**Requirements**:

- Comfortable with providing personal care, food preparation, household tasks, and handling medications.
- Capable of light lifting (ex. laundry and groceries.)
- Valid first aid and CPR
- Up to date vaccinations
- Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Check upon hiring
- Able to follow verbal and written communications and asks questions
- Organized with strong time-management skills
- Reliable, dependable, and punctual
- Open to feedback and working collaboratively
- Able to multitask and work independently
- Positive and easy-going
- Prioritizes people with disabilities making decisions and choices
- Flexible to changes in routines and able to remain calm in new situations
- Will take pride in maintaining the environment to the standard of the client
- Able to prioritize the needs of the client before their own

**Assets: (helpful, but not necessary)**
- Experience with disability community
- Experience with queer and trans community
- Comfortable cooking gluten-free and dairy-free
- Experience or familiarity with feeding tubes, catheters, and/or medications.
- Has a passion for creating systems of organization
- Open to travel and overnight shifts for trips out of the city or province. These are rare, but they do come up. If they do happen, staff do not need to be vigilantly awake at night.
- Basic knowledge of household maintenance skills (such as sewing or putting up a shelf)
- Familiar with medicinal marijuana and vaping
- Has a driver’s license, clean driving record, and reliable access to transportation

**Pay rate**: $18 + 4% vacation pay
- This position is funded through the Nova Scotia Department of Seniors and Long Term Care and Department of Opportunities and Social Development, which provide funding to people with disabilities to hire their own personal support workers._

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

Pay: $18.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress

Application question(s):

- How does your experience (work, volunteer, or life experience) makes you a good fit for this position?
- What experience do you have with queer and/or trans community or topics?
- What is your experience with disability topics and /or community, or people with disabilities?
- Do you have availability during typical shifts? (8:30am-3pm or 5:30-10:30/11 pm any day of the week)

Work Location: In person