Shirley Asiedu
personal support worker
Toronto,ON
Summary
PERSONAL SUPPORT WORKER Professional Summary: Reliable and compassionate individual with 10+ years’ hands-on experience in providing assistance in activities of daily living. Track record of working with clients of different ages and backgrounds. Exceptional caregiving and housekeeping skills. First Aid and CPR Certified. Comprehensive knowledge of implementing personal support plans focusing on the individual’s comfort, needs and interests. Great aptitude of managing heavy workload while giving the highest standard of care to every client. Proven record of maintaining and representing an optimistic approach towards clients, their families, coworkers and visitors.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Personal Support Worker (Sienna Senior
Living
02.2021 - Current
- Supported residents with daily living activities such as personal hygiene, feeding, and toileting; assisted residents in cleaning and maintaining eyeglasses, dentures, and hearing aids
- Ensuring the welfare, independence, health, and safety of clients
- Daily care reports, which may include resident incident reports, intake output, patient behavior, and wounds are documented and recorded
- Maintaining the welfare, independence, health, and safety of clients
- Work with other healthcare and support personnel to coordinate care
- Handled a caseload of six to eight patients at once.
Personal Support Worker
Para Med Health Care
11.2000 - Current
- Ensure that clients receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
- Teach life skills, safety, use of community transport and cooking
- Take clients shopping, ontrips, communal events, appointments and places of worship
- Prepare nutritious meals for clients
- Ensure the security and safety of the home
- Assist with cash management such as household bills
- Correspond with key agencies and personal service providers in the local society
- Wash, bath, bed bath and assist in shower for patients
- Oversee medicines to clients
Education
Personal Support Worker certificate -
George Brown College
2000
Skills
- AND COMPETENCIES
- Prompt, consistent and able to make and use own plan
- Excellent attention to detail
- Experience of dealing with exigent behaviors
- Caring and sympathetic approach
- Flexible in every day work and routines
- Experience working with people with learning disability or require extra support
- First Aid Certification
- Patient Care
- Personal Care Support
- Bathing
Timeline
Personal Support Worker (Sienna Senior
Living
02.2021 - Current
Personal Support Worker
Para Med Health Care
11.2000 - Current
Personal Support Worker certificate -
George Brown College
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