# Job Description
**Work Environment**
Non-smoking workplace
Urban setting
Multiple work locations
Work at employer's or client's home
**Responsibilities**
Tasks
- Provide bedside care and personal care
- Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
- Assist with regular physical exercises, for example: walking
- Feed clients or assist them with eating
- Do laundry
- Perform minor housework and cleaning tasks
- Provide companionship
- Meet personal needs
- Do shopping
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals
**Qualifications**
Credentials (certificates, permits, affiliations, courses, etc.)
- CPR Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
**Experience and Specialization**
Target clientele
- People with Alzheimer's disease
- Elderly persons
- People with physical disabilities
**Additional Information**
Safety and security
- Criminal record check required
- References required
**Working Conditions and Physical Abilities**
- Bending, squatting, kneeling
- Sitting, standing and walking
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Weight handled up to 23 kg (50 lb)
**Personal Qualities**
- Punctuality
- Client-focused attitude
- Sense of responsibility
- Effective interpersonal relations
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Judgment
- Organizational skills
- Reliability
- Teamwork
- Patience
- Honesty