NOC 4412: Home Support Workers, Housekeepers and Related Occupations

Appendix E – National Occupational Classification (NOC) 4412: Home Support Workers, Housekeepers and Related Occupations

Home support workers usually provide personal care and companionship for seniors, people with disabilities and convalescent clients. They usually provide care within the client’s residence. The home support worker might well also reside in the client’s residence on occasions. These people typically find employment with home care and support agencies as well as private households. In many cases, they could be self-employed too. Housekeepers provide housekeeping and other home management services. They perform their duties in private households and other non-institutional, residential settings.

The Example Titles

Some example titles held by these individuals could include:

• Attendant for persons with a visual impairment – home care

• Attendant for persons with disabilities – home care

• Client care attendant – home care

• Companion

• Domestic housekeeper

• Doula

• Family caregiver

• Family worker – home care

• Home health care worker

• Home support worker

• Home visitor – infant care

• Home care worker

• Homemaker

• Housekeeper

• Housekeeper – live-in

• 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

• Respite worker – home support

• Teaching homemaker

• Visiting homemaker

The Main Duties

Home support workers would typically perform some or all of the following duties:

• Providing care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence or family disruption

• Administering bedside and personal care to clients such as aiding in ambulating, bathing, personal hygiene, dressing and undressing

• Planning and preparing meals and special diets (including feeding or assisting in feeding clients)

• Performing routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressing, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of home care agency supervisors or nurses and,

• Performing routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing the dishes and making beds

Similarly, housekeepers would typically perform some or all of the following duties:

• Performing housekeeping and other home management duties under the general instructions of the employer

• Planning and preparing meals independently or with the employer (this includes serving the meals as well) and,

• Caring for the children

The Employment Requirements

The authorities require individuals working in these professions to have:

• Some secondary school education

• Some home management experience

• Completed some college or other courses in home support

• First aid certification and,

• Completed a training program in care of the elderly, care of persons with disabilities, convalescent care or in a related field

Additional Information

The authorities are aware that mobility exists among the occupations in this group.

Classified Elsewhere

• Home child care providers i.e. National Occupational Classification (NOC) 4411