Attendants for Persons with Disabilities - Home Care
Job description
These individuals accompany persons with mobility impairments related to a physical or intellectual disability. They help them move around on foot or use various types of transportation (train, adapted vehicles, public transit, etc.). They ensure these persons can safely and comfortably travel to their daily activities and social engagements.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Vehicle or passenger compartment
Main tasks
- Pick up the client at their home.
- Provide transportation for the individual using their own vehicle or the vehicle of the person being accompanied.
- Accompany a senior citizen to a medical appointment.
- Assist a disabled person with their daily errands.
- Accompany a child with reduced mobility to their recreational activities.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility among the occupations in this group.
Training and requirements
Formation
Sometimes required
- A Class 5 driver's licence is usually required.
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be required.
- Training in principles for moving clients safely (PDSB) may be required.
- Training in care of the elderly, disabled, or convalescent may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Service oriented
- Active listening
- Social perception
- Oral expression
- Result evaluation
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Critical thought
- Reading comprehension
- Equipment maintenance
- Equipment selection
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Deductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Written comprehension
- Information organization
- Speech recognition
- Overall balance of the body
- Limb coordination
- Static muscle power
- Hand-arm stability
- Inductive reasoning
- Selective attention
- Overall coordination of the body
- Depth perception
- Manual dexterity
- Core strength
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.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations (CNP 44101)
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026
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