Continuing Care Assistant
- Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Compensation: $20.00 - $21.00 per hour · Full-time
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- Compensation: $20.00 - $21.00 per hour
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- Full-time
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- English
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Original job description
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Opportunity for advancement
ComForCare Home Care is looking for caring, compassionate, and reliable Certified Continuing Care Assistants to support clients in their homes and care settings.
Our caregivers are the heart of what we do. At ComForCare, we value quality care, compassion, reliability, and meaningful relationships with the people we serve.
ComForCare is a recognized home care brand with over 200 locations across Canada and North America. We are committed to helping others live their best life possible.
Our Values
- Quality
- Compassion
- Reliability
- Continuing Care Assistant Certificate from Saskatchewan
- Strong experience with client mobility, transfers, and personal care
- Experience in healthcare, home care, assisted living, or long-term care
- Valid driver’s licence and access to a reliable vehicle
- Flexible availability, including weekdays, weekends, mornings, evenings, and overnights
- Experience supporting clients with limited mobility, dementia, chronic conditions, or age-related decline
Strong understanding of safe body mechanics, fall prevention, infection control, privacy, and client dignity
Preferred Experience
Personal care, including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, continence care, oral care, and hygiene assistance
Safe mobility and transfer assistance, including bed-to-chair, chair-to-wheelchair, wheelchair-to-toilet, and repositioning in bed
Use of transfer equipment, including full ceiling lifts, sit-to-stand lifts, Hoyer lifts, gait belts, walkers, and wheelchairs
One-on-one care in private homes, independent living, assisted living, or long-term care settings
Availability
Flexible Availability Is Preferred, Including
- Weekdays and weekends
- Mornings, evenings, and overnight shifts
- Assist clients with personal care, hygiene, toileting, dressing, grooming, and continence care
- Support safe transfers, repositioning, ambulation, and mobility assistance
- Use full ceiling lifts and other mechanical lift equipment safely, where required
- Provide companionship and emotional support while promoting dignity, independence, and comfort
- Assist with meal preparation, feeding assistance, hydration reminders, medication reminders, and light housekeeping
- Help with laundry, changing linens, and maintaining a clean and safe environment
- Observe and report changes in the client’s physical, emotional, or cognitive condition
- Follow the client’s care plan and complete required documentation after each visit
- Maintain client confidentiality, privacy, and professional boundaries
- Follow infection prevention, workplace safety, and safe body mechanics procedures
- Flexible scheduling
- Ongoing mentorship and support
- Career development opportunities
- Training and continuing education
- Dementia care training
- 24-hour support
- Hands-on and involved management
Compensation: $20.00 - $21.00 per hour
Live your best life possible while helping others live theirs.
Our Caregivers are the heart and soul of what we do. For that reason, we put our CaregiversFirst each and every day.
At ComForCare, it is our CaregiverFirst promise, that our caregivers will be:
- Treated with respect and dignity.
- Provided exceptional training on a regular and ongoing basis.
- Are never alone in the field - support is always available.
- Thoughtfully matched with clients that they are compatible with.
By selecting the positions below, you acknowledge that you are applying for employment with an independently owned and operated ComForCare franchisee, a separate company and employer from ComForCare and any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. You understand that each independent franchisee is solely responsible for all decisions relating to employment including (and without limitation to) hiring and termination, and ComForCare does not accept, review or store my application. Any questions about your application or the hiring process must be directed to the locally owned and operated ComForCare franchisee.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran.
ComForCare has five core values that drive everything we do.
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Responsibilities
Provide personal care, hygiene assistance, mobility and transfer support, companionship, and help with meals and light housekeeping in clients’ homes and care settings. Follow individualized care plans, document visits, monitor and report changes in clients’ conditions, and maintain safety, privacy, and dignity.
Requirements
Applicants must have a Continuing Care Assistant Certificate from Saskatchewan, experience with mobility, transfers, and personal care, and a valid driver’s licence with access to a reliable vehicle. The role also requires flexible availability and knowledge of care plans, documentation, safe body mechanics, fall prevention, infection control, privacy, and client dignity.
Skills
- Personal Care
- Mobility Assistance
- Safe Transfers
- Mechanical Lift Equipment
- Dementia Care
- Care Plan Implementation
- Documentation
- Infection Control
- Fall Prevention
- Safe Body Mechanics
- Companionship
- Meal Preparation
- Medication Reminders
- Client Observation and Reporting
- Confidentiality
- Reliable Transportation
Benefits
- Flexible Scheduling
- Career Advancement Opportunities
- Ongoing Mentorship and Support
- Career Development Opportunities
- Training and Continuing Education
- Dementia Care Training
- 24-Hour Support
- Hands-On Management
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Categories
- Healthcare
- Social Services
Keywords
- Continuing Care Assistant Certificate
- Personal Care
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Grooming
- Toileting
- Continence Care
- Oral Care
- Mobility Assistance
- Transfers
- Ceiling Lifts
- Sit-to-Stand Lifts
- Hoyer Lifts
- Gait Belts
- Walkers
- Wheelchairs
- Dementia Care
- Care Plans
- Documentation
- Fall Prevention
- Infection Control
- Safe Body Mechanics
- Meal Preparation
- Feeding Assistance
- Medication Reminders
- Light Housekeeping
- Client Confidentiality
- Companionship
- Home Care
- Long-Term Care