OBED BAADU
Brampton,ON
Summary
Dynamic caregiver with extensive experience in personal support and healthcare, including a pivotal role at Cosmopolitan Health Company. Expert in medical record-keeping and adaptive equipment use, with a proven track record of enhancing patient quality of life. CPR certified, demonstrating exceptional empathy and care. Achieved a 20% improvement in patient mobility and independence through innovative exercise encouragement and dementia care techniques.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Personal Support Worker
Barrie Manor Enhanced Care Community
Barrie, Canada
12.2024 - Current
- Assisting with bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal hygiene
- Helping with mobility, including transferring from bed to wheelchair or aiding in walking
- Assisting with toileting and incontinence care
- Ensuring medications are taken on time and in the correct dosage
- Assisting with or administering medications if necessary
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Engaging in conversation and activities that the individual enjoys
- Accompanying them to social events or outings, if possible
- Providing transportation to doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, or other necessary outings
- Running errands such as grocery shopping or picking up prescriptions
- Helping with daily routines like making the bed, organizing personal items, and scheduling appointments
- Supporting any assistive devices such as hearing aids or glasses
- Providing a comforting presence and helping the person manage feelings of loneliness, anxiety, or frustration
- Offering encouragement and promoting a positive outlook
Personal Support Worker (Internship)
Good Samaritan Seniors’ Living
Alliston, Canada
11.2024 - 01.2025
- Assisting with bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal hygiene
- Helping with mobility, including transferring from bed to wheelchair or aiding in walking
- Assisting with toileting and incontinence care
- Ensuring medications are taken on time and in the correct dosage
- Assisting with or administering medications if necessary
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Engaging in conversation and activities that the individual enjoys
- Accompanying them to social events or outings, if possible
- Providing transportation to doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, or other necessary outings
- Running errands such as grocery shopping or picking up prescriptions
- Helping with daily routines like making the bed, organizing personal items, and scheduling appointments
- Supporting any assistive devices such as hearing aids or glasses
- Providing a comforting presence and helping the person manage feelings of loneliness, anxiety, or frustration
- Offering encouragement and promoting a positive outlook
Personal Support Worker (Placement / Internship)
Beechwood Retirement Living
ON, Canada
11.2024 - 11.2024
- Assisting with bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal hygiene
- Helping with mobility, including transferring from bed to wheelchair or aiding in walking
- Assisting with toileting and incontinence care
- Ensuring medications are taken on time and in the correct dosage
- Assisting with or administering medications if necessary
- Preparing nutritious meals according to dietary needs or restrictions
- Assisting with feeding if necessary
- Encouraging hydration and regular meals
- Light cleaning duties, such as laundry, vacuuming, and tidying the living space
- Changing bed linens and ensuring the environment is safe and organized
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Engaging in conversation and activities that the individual enjoys
- Accompanying them to social events or outings, if possible
- Monitoring vital signs like blood pressure, temperature, or sugar levels
- Noticing changes in the person’s physical or mental condition and reporting to family or healthcare professionals
- Assisting with exercises or physical therapy routines
- Providing transportation to doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, or other necessary outings
- Helping with daily routines like making the bed, organizing personal items, and scheduling appointments
- Supporting any assistive devices such as hearing aids or glasses
- Providing a comforting presence and helping the person manage feelings of loneliness, anxiety, or frustration
- Offering encouragement and promoting a positive outlook
Caregiver (Health Service Provider)
Cosmopolitan Health Company
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Assisting with bathing, dressing, grooming, and personal hygiene
- Helping with mobility, including transferring from bed to wheelchair or aiding in walking
- Assisting with toileting and incontinence care
- Ensuring medications are taken on time and in the correct dosage
- Assisting with or administering medications if necessary
- Preparing nutritious meals according to dietary needs or restrictions
- Assisting with feeding if necessary
- Encouraging hydration and regular meals
- Light cleaning duties, such as laundry, vacuuming, and tidying the living space
- Changing bed linens and ensuring the environment is safe and organized
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Engaging in conversation and activities that the individual enjoys
- Accompanying them to social events or outings, if possible
- Monitoring vital signs like blood pressure, temperature, or sugar levels
- Noticing changes in the person’s physical or mental condition and reporting to family or healthcare professionals
- Assisting with exercises or physical therapy routines
- Providing transportation to doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, or other necessary outings
- Helping with daily routines like making the bed, organizing personal items, and scheduling appointments
- Supporting any assistive devices such as hearing aids or glasses
- Providing a comforting presence and helping the person manage feelings of loneliness, anxiety, or frustration
- Offering encouragement and promoting a positive outlook
- Ensuring a safe living environment by removing hazards
- Assisting with fall prevention and ensuring they are safe while moving around the house
Branch Manager
Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana
05.2020 - 04.2020
- Set high level performance target for the team and the organization
- Oversee and ensures company's administrative processes
- Perform Actuarial duties (identifying, monitoring, evaluating and accessing risk)
- Promoting the inventory of new business products and other objectives
- Interview, train new staffs for marketing and other operational duties
- Prepare and collate entire branch report and other operational work to the CEO
- Ensures proper allocation and development of company's items and other resources
- Assist sales executives in achieving monthly targets
- Assist in modeling and developing life Insurance products
- Perform other operational duties
Client Service Representative
First National Bank
07.2018 - 05.2019
- Perform branch operations
- Developing and modeling of client’s resources
- Meet with other departments to introduce, develop and implement client objectives
- Presentation of Company's product to organizations
- Sells First National Banks product to its cherished customers
- Accounts opening
Marketing Officer
Priority Insurance Company Limited
11.2015 - 07.2018
- Market motor insurance to clients
- Prospect and maintains professional relationship with clients
- Modeling and ensuring implementation of client’s objective
- Seek out new clients and develop clientele by networking to find new customers and generate lists of prospective clients
- Calculate motor insurance premium, comprehensive, third party to clients
- Assisted underwriting department in processing claims for clients
- Set out goals and other objectives to achieve monthly targets
- Collaborate with other team member
Education
Personal Support Worker - Personal Support Worker
Canadian Technical And Management College
Milton, ON01-2025
BSc - Actuarial Science
University For Development Studies
07.2014
Skills
- Medical record-keeping
- Adaptive equipment use
- Exercise encouragement
- Feeding assistance
- CPR certified
- Dementia care
Referees
- Jozefa Schmandra, Executive Director of Housekeeping, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Jozefa.Schmandra@hilton.com, 647 221-8334
- Dr Simi Ajana, Optometrist, LASIK MD, simiajana@yahoo.com, 365 833-5198
- Natalie, Human Resource Manager, Hilton Hotels and Resource, 647 525-4882
Timeline
Personal Support Worker
Barrie Manor Enhanced Care Community
12.2024 - Current
Personal Support Worker (Internship)
Good Samaritan Seniors’ Living
11.2024 - 01.2025
Personal Support Worker (Placement / Internship)
Beechwood Retirement Living
11.2024 - 11.2024
Caregiver (Health Service Provider)
Cosmopolitan Health Company
07.2021 - 09.2022
Branch Manager
Metropolitan Life Insurance Ghana
05.2020 - 04.2020
Client Service Representative
First National Bank
07.2018 - 05.2019
Marketing Officer
Priority Insurance Company Limited
11.2015 - 07.2018
Personal Support Worker - Personal Support Worker
Canadian Technical And Management College
BSc - Actuarial Science
University For Development Studies