Description
Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations, provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. They provide care in the client’s residence, where they may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed.
Job Titles
- Attendant for persons with disabilities – home care
- Family caregiver
- Home support worker
- Live-in caregiver – seniors
- Personal aide – home support
- Personal care attendant – home care
- Respite worker – home support
Main Duties
- Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption
- Administer bedside and personal care to clients such as aid in ambulation, bathing, personal hygiene, and dressing and undressing
- Plan and prepare meals and special diets, and feed or assist in feeding clients
- May perform routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressings, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of home care agency supervisor or nurse
- May perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes and making beds.
Workplaces
- Home-care agencies
- Private households
- Self-employment
Skills
- Oral Communication: Active Listening
- Social Perceptiveness
- Coordinating
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
Abilities
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Auditory Attention
- Body Flexibility
- Dynamic Strength
- Explosive Strength
Personal Attributes
- Adaptability
- Attention to Detail
- Collaboration
- Concern for Others
- Independence
Similar Occupations
- Home child care providers (44100)
Source: OaSIS
Employment Outlook
The employment outlook will be very good for Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations (44101) in Prince Edward Island for the 2022-2024 period.
The following factors contributed to this outlook:
- Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
- A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
- There are a moderate number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.
It is possible to access this occupation without any specific training, but education is increasingly required. Employment trends in this occupation depend mostly on demographic and organizational factors. From a demographic perspective, an aging population significantly contributes to an increase in the number of visiting homemakers and home support workers, since seniors are the main users of these services. From an organizational perspective, the health care network’s objective is to reduce hospitalization time and ensure that people who have been hospitalized return home more quickly. This translates into increased demand for home support services.
Here are some key facts about Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations in Prince Edward Island:
- Approximately 300 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
- Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations mainly work in the following sectors:
- Social assistance (NAICS 624): 57%
- Nursing and residential care facilities (NAICS 623): 20%
- Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621): 9%
- Other services (except public administration) (NAICS 81): 7%
- The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
- Full-time workers: 75% compared to 84% for all occupations
- Part-time workers: 25% compared to 16% for all occupations
- 57% of home support workers, caregivers and related occupations work all year, while 42% work only part of the year, compared to 59% and 41% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 40 weeks compared to 41 weeks for all occupations.
- 15% of home support workers, caregivers and related occupations are self-employed compared to an average of 13% for all occupations.
- The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
- Men: 10% compared to 51% for all occupations
- Women: 90% compared to 49% for all occupations
- The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
- no high school diploma: 9% compared to 11% for all occupations
- high school diploma or equivalent: 23% compared to 28% for all occupations
- apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 28% compared to 11% for all occupations
- college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor’s: 31% compared to 25% for all occupations
- bachelor’s degree: 8% compared to 17% for all occupations
- university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 8% for all occupations
Source: Job Bank
Prevailing Wages
| AREA | LOW | MEDIAN | HIGH |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEI | $16.00 | $16.00 | $24.00 |
| Canada | $15.00 | $19.02 | $25.00 |
Training
| TRAINING PROGRAM | INSTITUTION | CREDENTIAL |
|---|---|---|
| Resident Care Worker | Holland College | Certificate |
| Human Services | Holland College | Diploma |
Additional Training
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