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This page shows a full Personal Support Worker resume, marked up with what a hiring manager reads each section for.

Open jobs

135

Most openings

Ontario

The example

A personal support worker resume, marked up.

Resume

Rosalie Mensah

Personal Support Worker — Long-Term Care and Dementia Care

Windsor, Ontario

Professional Summary

Personal support worker with seven years in long-term care, supporting a consistent assignment of ten residents on a secure dementia unit. Holds gentle persuasive approaches training and orients new staff to the unit routine.

Experience

Personal Support Worker, Secure Dementia Unit

Riverside Long-Term Care Home • Windsor, ON

Sep 2022 - Present

  • Support a consistent assignment of ten residents on a secure dementia unit, covering personal care, meals, and mobility.
  • Report changes in behaviour and intake to the registered staff, including the early signs that usually come before a fall.
  • Orient new support workers to the unit routine and to each resident's approach.

Personal Support Worker, Home Care

Essex County Home Care Services • Windsor, ON

Jun 2019 - Aug 2022

  • Visited clients in their own homes on a scheduled route, working alone for the length of each shift.
  • Supported clients living with limited mobility and early dementia, and flagged safety concerns to the care coordinator.
  • Kept the visit records the coordinator relied on for care plan changes.

Education

St. Clair College

Personal Support Worker Certificate • Personal Support Work

Sep 2018 - May 2019

Skills

Personal care and hygieneSafe transfers and liftsDementia and responsive behaviour supportFall risk observationMeal assistance and intake monitoringReporting to registered staffHome care visit documentationOrienting new staff

Certifications

Personal Support Worker Certificate

St. Clair College

May 2019

Gentle Persuasive Approaches in Dementia Care

Advanced Gerontological Education

Mar 2022

Standard First Aid and CPR Level C

Canadian Red Cross

Sep 2024

Before you apply

What healthcare hiring managers look for

A Personal Support Worker is hired on reliability and on what gets reported up. Naming the resident load you carry and the changes you escalate matters more than listing personal care tasks a reader already assumes.

There are 135 open Personal Support Worker roles, concentrated in Ontario.

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Common questions

Writing a personal support worker resume.

The setting, the number of residents or clients you support, and the certificate you hold. Open Personal Support Worker roles on the board right now: 135.

Only briefly. Every Personal Support Worker does bathing, transfers, and feeding, so the resume should spend its space on what is specific to you, such as dementia training or the settings you have worked in.

They do. The same work is posted as health care aide or care aide depending on the province, so a Personal Support Worker applying across Ontario and beyond should search under each title.