Who Needs You as a Caregiver?

Opportunities to work as a live-in caregiver in Canada include:

• Helping seniors of all ages with many tasks, including home maintenance, cooking, pet care, personal care, and companionship;
• Helping working families care for children;
• Helping people deal with physical and mental disabilities or illnesses.

Your professional skills as a caregiver can bring you to Canada as a Stewart's Caregiver. For more information on providing Elder Care, Child Care or Patient Care, click on the relevant photograph.

Elder care	Child care - Nanny	Patient care

Elder Care

As a Stewart's Caregiver, you can enhance the lives of an elderly senior or couple. Your job could include:

• Making sure the home is secure and safe – during the day and overnight.
• Ensuring medications are taken as prescribed
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals, including special diets
• Caring for pets – including any medication, special diets and regular exercise
• Maintaining the home through light housecleaning and the yard with light yard work, such as lawn mowing and weeding
• Providing transportation and running errands
• Offering personal assistance as required, including help with bathing
• Doing laundry and ironing, assisting with dressing if required
• Making medical appointments and alerting family or medical professionals to any health changes
• Paying bills
• Providing companionship and activities to enhance quality of life
• Maintaining and enhancing the social, emotional, intellectual and physical abilities of senior citizens

Child Care

As a nanny or caregiver, you are an important part of a Canadian families. In many families, both parents work and need help to give their children proper care and to maintain their homes.

Your help gives the family more quality time by:

• Eliminating the morning rush of getting children to daycare or school, so everyone has a better start to the day
• Giving parents greater control over how their children are influenced
• Nurturing the children in the home environment, with less exposure to disease or harmful external influences
• Providing supervision even when children are sick or outside the hours of conventional daycare
• Handling the pick-up and drop-off of children, whether for school, care, or classes/activities
• Providing more personalized care to each child
• Supervising children’s homework
• Helping with housekeeping and cooking, resulting in a better home life for the entire family
• Acting as an auxiliary “parent” to the family who shares family values
  
  

Patient Care

The following are some of the medical situations facing Canadian families. As a live-in caregiver, you can use your medical training and background to improve the lives of your clients.

If you have experience working with any of the following conditions, please let us know in your application.

Depending on the level of care required, you may work with other caregivers. This is very likely when 24-hour care is required. Your employer cannot ask you to work 24-hours-a-day, seven days a week.

Apply to Stewart's Caregivers

Your skills in childcare, eldercare and medical care can help find a rewarding job in Canada and lead to Canadian citizenship. To contact Stewart's Caregivers, please click here.