Health Care Assistant-ESL
(formerly Home Support/Resident Care Attendant - ESL)
Certificate in Health Care Assistant – ESL
Come out to an Information Session, meet your instructors and learn more about Health Care Assistant – ESL!
HS/RCA ESL Awards Ceremony July '09
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Get professional training for a career in health care as you improve your English language skills!
The 8.5 month Health Care Assistant – ESL (HCA-ESL) program will prepare you to function as a frontline care provider in long-term care facilities and other community settings. As you work through the course content, you’ll get the skills you need to promote and maintain the physical, psychological and social well-being of residents/clients. Focusing on the elderly, you’ll learn how to work collaboratively as a member of a health care team in all levels of continuing care. You’ll study in class, lab and clinical placement settings, and upon completion of the program you’ll have the language
and practical skills necessary to seek rewarding employment in the Canadian health care environment.
Health Care Assistants are employed in many levels of continuing care, including adult day care, personal care, intermediate care, extended care, group homes and community or home support agencies. You’ll work collaboratively as a member of a health care team, under the direction and supervision of an appropriate health care professional.
The program starts in October at the Lansdowne Campus and classes run Monday to Friday from 9:00am-3:00pm.