Social worker seeking a position as a Home Support Worker / Caregiver for Seniors or people with needs, also happy if there's a need for seniors and children /youth in the family. Highly - experience working as a medical social worker and with our elderly, children and youth - worked in different fields of work and different countries, hence lots of skills and always eager to broaden my skill set – Caretaker for my grandmother and taking care of the family Non smoker - willing to BC, Alberta or Ontario+ (and have friends in different places) - BC driving licence and vehicle – references from Canada and overseas – open to live-in and live out positions I am reliable, a background as a medical social worker and working with children and youth with over 12+ years of experience. I am looking forward to working as a Home Support Worker/ Caregiver in a supporting your loved ones. I am highly adaptable, organized and a lot detail and easy to talk to. I have a broad skill set and I will be good company while engaging in well as activities and physical movement. Furthermore I am happy to tend to general household duties, accompany to appointments and running errands as well as light assistance in so on. During my time as a medical social worker I did not only work with a lot of different illnesses and my responsibility for organizing follow-up me awareness of in providing home care. While I don't have extensive experience as a Caregiver, I am a fast learner and eager to expand my knowledge within this field and I already enrolled and completed some online courses, borrowed books and keep on expanding my knowledge. I did care for my grandmother temporarily, offering companionship, assisting with physical movement activities, , helping with support stockings and managing her , I managed the errands and cooking for the household while my parents and grandmother had covid for several weeks. Further : - Instructed general gymnastics for seniors with level; - Experience in house-, farm-, and pet-sitting as well as farm management on several farms and in households; - Wwoofing and workaway experiences were I worked in and on properties; - Worked with children and youth in different settings professionally and voluntarily; - Fluent in both English and German. I am in BC/Alberta since September 2022 and aiming for permanent residency; however, I do not require sponsorship. In Canada I have mostly lived and worked on Vancouver Island, but I am absolutely able to Canada and explore new regions. Please leave me a message here since I am on a farm with very spare cell reception right now. Also somehow the out some of my text (in some sentences).

Interests: - I love travelling and enjoy meeting new people and good well as everything outdoors (hiking, biking, recently started climbing, kajaking...). I enjoy , interested in , sustainability, woodwork, learning about cultures, DIY. I am fully have police checks from Germany and Australia so far. I have some first aid courses including outdoor first aid, but they are all a little back so I am already looking to sign up for a new one. for further > Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annika-wetzlar-canada/ Workaway profile: https://www.workaway.info/en/account/workawayer/tab/overview Further social worker: In hospital I did work on a variety of wards and clinics with with for the following departments: heart surgery, various oncology-based units and chemotherapy, nephrology and dialysis , general-, visceral- and transplant surgery, gynecology, vascular surgery, amputee , internal medicine, intensive care units, ER and a variety of internal medicine clinics. I was working additionally with other Strokes, , , dementia and since it is a university hospital we often had multiple illnesses.

Bachelor of Social Work