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Caregivers and Home Support Workers

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2022-2026
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

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

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2021

All of Québec

17,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
88.6% Female
11.4% Male

Not available.
  • 88.6% Female
  • 11.4% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$27,000

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.
  1. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    45% of jobs
  2. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    24% of jobs
  3. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    18% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    4% of jobs
  5. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    7% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    45% of jobs
  2. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    24% of jobs
  3. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    18% of jobs
  4. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    4% of jobs
  5. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
    NAICS 71
    2% of jobs
  6. Others
    7% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

Secondary

DVS in assistance à la personne en établissement et à domicile This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 5358

Placement rate: 79.6%

12.3% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
DVS in institutional and Home Care Assistance This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 5858

Placement rate: 78.8%

15.1% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation

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
More Less skills

Abilities

  • Oral comprehension
  • Verbal skills
  • Awareness of issues
  • Speech clarity
  • Written comprehension
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Near vision
  • Information organization
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Speech recognition
More Less abilities

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.
Additional information

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
More Less job titles

Skill type

Education, law and social, community and government services

WAP

This occupation is targeted by a Workplace Apprenticeship Program

  • Domestic attendant This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Related occupations

  • Home child care providers
  • Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: April 28, 2023

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