Live-In Caregivers and Home Support Workers
Job description
Live-In Caregivers work with elderly, disabled, or convalescent people. They provide personal care and companionship. They are self-employed or work for home care agencies and private homes.
Home Support Workers perform housework and other household chores. They are employed in private homes and other residential settings (e.g. seniors’ centres).
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Odours
Main tasks
Residential Caregivers
- Provide care to people (help them walk, take care of their personal hygiene, etc.) and keep them company.
- Plan and prepare meals and special diets.
- Feed people or help them feed themselves.
- Provide routine medical care (change dressings, administer medication, etc.).
- Perform routine household chores (do laundry, wash dishes, make beds, etc.).
Home Support Workers
- Perform household chores and other domestic work.
- Plan and prepare meals and serve them when appropriate.
- Take care of children, when required.
- Administer medication.
- Adapt the way the service is provided to the person’s level of ability, as well as to the psychosocial context.
- Prevent infection and contamination.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility among the occupations in this group.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $16.10
- Median
- $20.81
- Maximum
- $25.83
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
12,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 89.7% Female
- 10.3% Male
Not available.
- 89.7% Female
- 10.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$41,600
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62355% of jobs
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NAICS 62431% of jobs
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NAICS 818% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62355% of jobs
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NAICS 62431% of jobs
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NAICS 818% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 562% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others3% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in institutional and Home Care Assistance
Code : 5858
Placement rate: 78.8%
15.1% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- First aid certification may be required.
- First aid and CPR training may be required.
- Job-related experience is often required.
- Experience in home economics may be required.
- Training in principles for moving clients safely (PDSB) may be required.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence may be required.
- Training in care of the elderly, disabled, or convalescent may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Service oriented
- Social perception
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Result evaluation
- Coordination
- Critical thought
- Teaching
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Inductive reasoning
- Information organization
- Speech recognition
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Honesty
- Capacity to be discrete
- Friendliness
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Respect others
- Availability
- Patience
- Open-mindedness
Interests
- Assist and advise
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 44101
Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations
Job titles
- Attendants for Persons with Disabilities - Home Care
- Home Support Workers
- Home Support Workers
- Home health care worker
- Visiting homemaker
- Domestic helper
- Personal aide - home support
- Doula
- Attendant for persons with a visual impairment - home care
- Personal assistant - home care
- Personal care aide - home care
- Live-in caregiver
- Live-in caregiver - seniors
- Live-in caregiver - persons with disabilities
- Teaching homemaker
- Companion
- Personal care provider - home care
- Respite worker - home support
- Personal support worker - home support
- Client care attendant - home care
- Personal care attendant - home care
- Home support attendant
- Family caregiver
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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Last update: January 29, 2026
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