Canadian Citizens or PR : 7125 CA$
International Students : 9125 CA$
Admission Requirements
- Full immunization record
- Technical Literacy Exam
- Police Record Check with VSS
- IELTS 6.0 (B2) or Equivalent *
- Medical certificate of fitness
- Level HCP CPR and Standard
- FIRST AID
- Copy of passport *
- OSSD, equivalent or
- Confirmed Mature Student Status
* For International students only
About The Program
A Personal Support Worker (PSW) is responsible for providing supportive care and ensuring clients’ physical and psycho-social well-being. PSW’s work in long-term care facilities, home care settings, retirement homes, supportive housing, group homes, adult day programs, hospitals, and educational facilities. This program prepares you with the skills and knowledge, both practical and theoretical, required to be part of this so much needed profession of our current days.
How Are You Going to Develop New Skills?
The lessons are “practice oriented”. Each new piece of information is learned by means of executing the task. The lessons is developed with a Presentation-Practice-Performance format, through which the students put the knowledge into practice on a daily basis, through the tools and resources available at the classroom, which has been set up as a real room of a retirement home.
Program Modules
- Foundation
- Safety & Mobility
- Body System
- Personal Hygiene
- Abuse Awareness
- Household Management, Nutrition and Hydration
- Assisting the Family
- Assisting the Dying Person
- Assisting with Medications
- Cognitive Impairment & Health Conditions
- Job Search Training
- Community Placement
- Facility Placement
Job Opportunities
- Personal Support Worker
- Home Support Worker
- Long-term Care Staff
- Home Care Worker
- PSW supervisor