Job Type: Full Time

Home Support Worker

Overview

Job Location: West Kelowna, BC

Salary: $18-$25/hr depending on experience, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Languages

English

Education

  • Other trades certificate or diploma
  • or equivalent experience

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Work site environment

  • Non-smoking

Work setting

  • Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is NOT a condition of employment
  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Willing to relocate

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Administer bedside and personal care
  • Assist clients with bathing and other aspects of personal hygiene
  • Feed or assist in feeding
  • Launder clothing and household linens
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Provide companionship
  • Provide personal care
  • Prepare and serve nutritious meals

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • First Aid Certificate
  • Personal Support Worker Certificate

Experience and specialization

Target audience

  • Persons with a disability
  • Young adults

Additional information

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Punctuality
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Judgement
  • Reliability

Benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • On-site housing options

Telecommunications technician

Wage Rate

$32.50/h

Languages

English

Education

  • College/CEGEP

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Diagnose and locate equipment faults, and adjust, replace or repair telecommunications equipment
  • Inspect and test operation of telecommunications equipment
  • Install, arrange, remove and maintain telephone equipment, wiring and associated hardware
  • Repair or replace defective telephone equipment
  • Test installed telephone systems to locate transmission faults
  • Analyze test results and adjust, change or repair switching system, network, associated equipment and software
  • Complete and maintain test and service reports
  • Determine nature, cause and location of trouble
  • Initiate the dispatch of appropriate repair personnel
  • Inspect and test trunking systems
  • Install electromechanical, analog and digital trunking systems, circuits and equipment in telecommunications central offices and switching centres
  • Instruct apprentices
  • Operate computerized testing systems to conduct service tests on customer lines and equipment
  • Read and interpret blueprints
  • Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures
  • Connect, disconnect and relocate cable outlets
  • Determine work assignments
  • Inspect, test and repair cable signals and associated equipment
  • Install cable modems and software to enable Internet access
  • Maintain and repair aerial and underground transmission systems
  • Repair or replace faulty cables, power suppliers and amplifiers

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Tight deadlines
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Manual dexterity

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability