44101 Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations

What this occupation covers

Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations, provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. They provide care in the client's residence, where they may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed.

Official main duties

The NOC profile lists 5 main duties for this code.

• Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption
• Administer bedside and personal care to clients such as aid in ambulation, bathing, personal hygiene, and dressing and undressing
• Plan and prepare meals and special diets, and feed or assist in feeding clients
• May perform routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressings, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of home care agency supervisor or nurse
• May perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes and making beds.

Do not copy these lines into your reference letter. The letter has to describe what you actually did, in your employer’s words. DUTYPROOF flags wording lifted from the NOC as something to review, and an officer reading a letter that mirrors the NOC reads it the same way.

What DUTYPROOF screens for

This is DUTYPROOF’s screening threshold, not IRCC’s decision. For this NOC, screening requires at least 2 of its 5 official duties to be evidenced in your own words, plus the required letter elements. IRCC asks that you performed the actions in the occupation’s lead statement and a substantial number of its main duties — so treat the duty coverage as the number that matters, not the badge.

Codes this one is confused with

The NOC profile names these itself. Choosing the wrong code of a look-alike pair is the most common way genuine work experience fails to establish eligibility.

• 44100 Home child care providers

Excluded from this code

• Home child care providers (See 44100 Home child care providers)

Job titles filed under this code

A title on this list does not by itself put your experience in this code — the duties in your letter decide that.

attendant for persons with a visual impairment - home care · attendant for persons with disabilities - home care · client care attendant - home care · companion · domestic helper · doula · family caregiver · family worker - home care · home health care worker · home helper · home support attendant · home support worker · home-care worker · homemaker · live-in caregiver · live-in caregiver - persons with disabilities · live-in caregiver - seniors · personal aide - home support · personal assistant - home care · personal care aide - home care · personal care attendant - home care · personal care provider - home care · personal support aide - home aide · personal support worker - home support

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education is usually required.
• Home management experience may be required.
• College or other courses in home support may be required.
• First aid certification may be required.
• Completion of a training program in care of the elderly, care of persons with disabilities, convalescent care or in a related field may be required.