Careers
Join a team that grows its people
Alberta Maple Care is a growing, nurse-led home care team in Calgary, and growth here happens within the team as much as by adding to it. We’re building our Health Care Aide and Personal Support Worker rosters now, and we post nursing and social work roles as they open.
Roles we hire
Health Care Aide (HCA)
Building a roster: accepting applications. The regulated role: active CLHA registration (or eligibility) required. You’ll work to care plans set by a Registered Nurse.
Personal Support Worker (PSW)
Building a roster: accepting applications. Companionship, homemaking, meals, errands and escort — plus day-to-day personal care support, always within a nurse-set care plan. We support PSWs who want to bridge toward the Health Care Aide role.
LPN · RN · Social Worker
Posted when we’re actively recruiting. Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses and Social Workers join the clinical team that designs and supervises every care plan.
Two roles, two legal footings
Alberta regulated Health Care Aides on 2 February 2026 under the Health Professions Act. That makes the HCA and Personal Support Worker roles genuinely different in law — not just in title — and we hire and value both. Here is how the two compare at Alberta Maple Care. Some lines below are Alberta law; where a line is our own company policy, we say so.
| Health Care Aide | Personal Support Worker | |
|---|---|---|
| Regulatory status | Regulated health professional under the Health Professions Act | Not a regulated profession |
| Regulator | College of Licensed Practical Nurses and Health Care Aides of Alberta (CLHA) | None |
| Practice permit | Required, renewed annually | Not applicable |
| Standards of practice and code of ethics | Binding — a breach may be unprofessional conduct | Alberta Maple Care policy applies |
| Protected title | Yes — only CLHA registrants may use it | Must not use the HCA title |
| Personal care and activities of daily living — bathing, dressing, toileting, transfers | Yes, as assigned and within individual competence | Yes — day-to-day personal care within a nurse-set care plan. Activities of daily living are not restricted activities in Alberta law |
| Companionship, homemaking, meal preparation, errands, escort | Yes | Yes |
| Higher-risk daily living tasks — for example catheter care, blood glucose testing, feeding-tube flushing | Only by assignment from a nurse, with supervision and demonstrated competence | No — company policy |
| Medication assistance | Per the CLHA’s medication assistance policy and the client’s care plan | Reminders only — a PSW may remind a client to take their own medication, never assist with or administer it |
| Insulin — dialling an insulin pen or injecting insulin | Not permitted under any circumstances | Not permitted — company policy applies the CLHA prohibition to every role |
| Restricted activities | One only — inserting or removing anything beyond the anal verge or labia majora (suppositories, enemas, vaginal medication) — and only where a client-specific order is in the care plan, a nurse has consented to supervise and set the supervision level, and Alberta Maple Care has authorised that individual | None, under any circumstances |
| Assessing a client’s health care needs | Outside the role — this belongs to a nurse. The HCA reports any change in the client’s condition to the nurse whenever a reassessment may be needed | Outside the role — the PSW likewise reports any change to the nurse whenever a reassessment may be needed |
| Working to a nurse-set care plan | Yes | Yes |
| Professional duty to question or decline an unsafe assignment | Yes — a regulatory obligation | Alberta Maple Care policy encourages the same |
| Pathway | — | Bridging support available toward HCA registration |
Where a line reads “company policy”, it is Alberta Maple Care’s own model rather than a legal requirement — and our policy never lets the unregulated role exceed the regulated one. HCAs weighing whether a task sits within their scope can work through the CLHA’s HCA Practice Decision Making Tool and the CLHA’s Activities of Daily Living practice guideline (effective March 2026), which this table follows.
Not sure which role fits you? Read our guide to the difference →
Pay
- Statutory holidays are paid at a premium rate.
- Overnight shifts carry an additional $1.00 per hour on top of the regular rate.
- Shifts are a minimum of 3 hours, except when they are combined with other visits on the same day.
- One-way mileage is paid where you work a single shift of less than 4 hours in a day.*
- Travel time and mileage between clients are paid.*
- Pay is biweekly.
* Subject to Alberta Maple Care’s policies and procedures.
What we cover
- Paid orientation.
- Paid training.
- Paid refresher courses.
- First Aid certification renewals are on us.
- Required police check renewals are on us.
Working at Alberta Maple Care
- Nurse-led, always. Caregivers work to care plans set by a Registered Nurse.
- You’re never dropped in cold. First visits are shadowed with an LPN or RN, and shadow visits are paid time.
- Paid quarterly training. Every three months, all staff go through paid onboarding and refresher training — policies and procedures, best practices, safety, documentation, and the special skills our clients need.
- A path forward. We support Personal Support Workers who want to bridge to the Health Care Aide role.
- Where you’ll work. Calgary and the surrounding communities we serve: Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere, Strathmore, Okotoks, Canmore and Banff. And we are expanding — if you live outside these areas, apply anyway: we will add you to our candidate pool and reach out as soon as we have clients in your area.
What you’ll need
- Criminal record check with vulnerable sector search, current within 6 months.
- Standard First Aid with CPR Level C + AED.
- Immunization record and TB screening, per our requirements.
- HCAs: active registration and practice permit with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses and Health Care Aides of Alberta (CLHA), or eligibility for registration. We’ll ask your register — General, Transitional or Provisional — at application.
- PSWs: no specific certification or registration is required — most of our Personal Support Workers are trained by our own nursing team.
- LPNs: active practice permit with the CLHA.
- RNs: active practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA).
- Social Workers: registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
Once you’re on the team, Alberta Maple Care covers the cost of renewing your criminal record check and your First Aid/CPR certification.
How hiring works
Every application is reviewed by a person. Your first visits are shadowed with an LPN or RN, and shadow visits are paid time. How quickly things move depends on client availability and scheduling. You’ll hear from our Program Manager / Manager either way.
Questions before you apply? Call or reach us through the contact form.
Alberta Maple Care Ltd. · 440-1919 Sirocco Dr SW, Calgary, AB
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