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
- Climatic conditions
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.
- Feeding people or helping 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 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $15.25
- Median
- $18.75
- Maximum
- $25.00
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 88.6% Female
- 11.4% Male
- 88.6% Female
- 11.4% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
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
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NAICS 621, 622, 62345% of jobs
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NAICS 62424% of jobs
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NAICS 8118% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 564% of jobs
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NAICS 712% of jobs
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Others7% of jobs
All of Québec
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NAICS 621, 622, 62345% of jobs
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NAICS 62424% of jobs
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NAICS 8118% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 564% of jobs
-
NAICS 712% of jobs
-
Others7% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
DVS in assistance à la personne en établissement et à domicile 
Placement rate: 79.6%
12.3% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in institutional and Home Care Assistance
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
- Teaching
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Critical thought
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- 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 4412
Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations
Job titles
- Home Support Workers
- Attendant for persons with disabilities - home care
- Personal aide - home support
- Homemaker
- Personal support worker - home support
- Client care attendant - home care
- Doula
- Attendant for persons with a visual impairment - home care
- Personal assistant - home care
- Personal support aide - home aide
- Home visitor - infant care
- Home support worker
- Home-care worker
- Home health care worker
- Housekeeper
- Live-in caregiver - seniors
- Live-in caregiver - persons with disabilities
- Live-in housekeeper
- Teaching homemaker
- Companion
- Personal care provider - home care
- Respite worker - home support
- Personal care attendant - home care
- Home support attendant
- Family worker - home care
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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Last update: April 28, 2023
