About The Program
Home Support Workers provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. Care is provided within the client’s residence, in which the home support worker may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed.
How Are You Going to Learn
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
- Home Support Worker Foundation
- Health and Safety
- Mobility
- Nutrition and Meal Planning
- Household Management
- Abuse Awareness
- Palliative Care
- Off Site Practicum
Job Opportunities
- Attendant for persons with disabilities (Home Care Worker)
- Family Caregiver
- Home Support Worker
- Housekeeper
- Live-in Caregiver
- Seniors personal aide
- Home Support Personal Care Attendant