In Ontario, personal support workers have many options when it comes to seeking employment. Not only can personal support workers find positions in home health care tending to the needs of individual clients, but many larger facilities and institutions often hire personal support workers as permanent staff. Such employers include:
- Long-Term Care Facilities
- Home Health Care Agencies
- Retirement Homes/Residences
- Hospices
- Group Homes
- Adult and Child Daycare Centres
In Ontario, the personal support worker profession is being supported by $107 million appropriated in 2008-2009 to hire approximately 2,500 personal support workers in senior care facilities throughout the province.* These funds are beginning to be spent this year, which has created many new opportunities for those educated and experienced in this field.
Personal Support Worker Education Available at Everest College in Barrie
If working in the rewarding health care field as a personal support worker appeals to you, you can get the education and experience you need to qualify for entry-level positions at the Barrie campus of Everest College of Business, Technology and Health Care. This seven-month program provides intensive hands-on education taught by industry professionals dedicated to their students’ success.
Personal Support Worker classes include intensive training in:
- The Role of the Worker
- Interpersonal Skills
- Safety
- Assisting a Person with Mobility
- Abuse
- Household Management and Meal Preparation
- Providing Optimal Support/Care Planning
- Assisting a Person with Personal Hygiene
- Assisting the Family
- Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health Issues
- Assisting a Person to Manage Ongoing Conditions
- Assisting a Person with Medications
- Assisting a Person Who Is Dying
Upon graduation, students can take advantage of Everest's Career Services department. These career professionals can help you write an effective resume, practice critical interviewing techniques, choose an appropriate wardrobe and, most important of all, help you identify personal support worker job opportunities in your area.
About the Barrie Campus
Everest College's Barrie campus is conveniently located in the lower level of the Bayfield Mall at 320 Bayfield Street just north of the intersection of Bayfield Street and Highway 400. The site offers ample off-street parking. In addition to the Personal Support Worker program, the Barrie campus also offers career education programs in a variety of business, health care and technology specialties.
For More Information
For more information about the Personal Support Worker career education program at Everest College's Barrie campus, contact Everest today!
*Source: Ontario Budget 2008: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2008/chpt1e.html.
