Personal Support Worker (Living Classroom) (Meighen Health Centre)
How To Apply
Program Details
- Program Code9119
- Credential TypeOntario College Certificate
- SchoolSchool of Practical Nursing and Health
- Program TypePost-secondary program
- Program Length1 year/ 2 semesters
- LocationOff-site
- EmailPNPSWandHealth@centennialcollege.ca
- Telephone416-289-5000
- PGWP AlignedNo
- Program Overview
- Courses
- Career Options and Education Pathways
- Admission Requirements
- How to Apply
- Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
- Personal Support Worker - Bridging to Practical Nursing
- Advising
Start your healthcare career in Uptown Toronto with the Personal Support Worker (Living Classroom) (Meighen Health Centre) program.
Gain the skills, confidence, and experience to provide compassionate, person-centred care in a variety of healthcare settings. Delivered onsite in a real long-term care environment located steps away from the Davisville Subway Station. This unique Living Classroom experience allows you to learn by doing, working alongside experienced professionals while building connections that can lead to employment.
Graduate job ready and prepared to make a meaningful difference, with opportunities to continue your education in nursing and other health programs.
From your first class to your first day on the job, we help fund your journey by covering the cost of uniforms, textbooks, CPR and First Aid certification, Food Handler permits, and your vulnerable sector check so you can focus on becoming the health care professional you aspire to be.
Make a Difference Where It Matters Most
Build a meaningful career supporting individuals across the lifespan in this hands-on, career-focused program. You’ll gain the skills and confidence to provide compassionate, person-centred care to individuals living with physical disabilities, cognitive challenges, and acute or chronic health conditions.
Learn By Doing
Through immersive training and real-world experience, you’ll develop the practical expertise needed to support clients with daily living, promote independence, and enhance quality of life.
Start Your Pathway in Healthcare
Whether you’re looking to begin your career or advance your education, the Personal Support Worker program opens doors to further opportunities including Bridging into Practical Nursing.
Program Overview
Start your healthcare career in Uptown Toronto with the Personal Support Worker (Living Classroom) (Meighen Health Centre) program.
Gain the skills, confidence, and experience to provide compassionate, person-centred care in a variety of healthcare settings. Delivered onsite in a real long-term care environment located steps away from the Davisville Subway Station. This unique Living Classroom experience allows you to learn by doing, working alongside experienced professionals while building connections that can lead to employment.
Graduate job ready and prepared to make a meaningful difference, with opportunities to continue your education in nursing and other health programs.
From your first class to your first day on the job, we help fund your journey by covering the cost of uniforms, textbooks, CPR and First Aid certification, Food Handler permits, and your vulnerable sector check so you can focus on becoming the health care professional you aspire to be.
Make a Difference Where It Matters Most
Build a meaningful career supporting individuals across the lifespan in this hands-on, career-focused program. You’ll gain the skills and confidence to provide compassionate, person-centred care to individuals living with physical disabilities, cognitive challenges, and acute or chronic health conditions.
Learn By Doing
Through immersive training and real-world experience, you’ll develop the practical expertise needed to support clients with daily living, promote independence, and enhance quality of life.
Start Your Pathway in Healthcare
Whether you’re looking to begin your career or advance your education, the Personal Support Worker program opens doors to further opportunities including Bridging into Practical Nursing.
Courses
Career Options and Education Pathways
Companies Offering Jobs
Be career-ready in multiple healthcare settings.
Your training will prepare you for diverse and in-demand roles across:
- Hospitals, long-term care facilities and retirement homes
- Community and home care environments
- Schools and specialized support programs
- Residential and community agencies
With this versatility, you’ll graduate ready to step into a variety of rewarding healthcare environments and make an immediate impact.
Program Highlights
- This Personal Support Worker program reflects the latest practices and policies in the field.
- The Living Classroom is a partnership model that integrates education in long-term care or retirement homes to support workforce development in senior living. Students, faculty and those living, visiting and working in the home are engaged in a culture of shared learning.
- You'll spend 14 weeks gaining extensive practical experience. Many students have been offered employment in the agencies in which they completed their placements.
- With one instructor to each small group of clinical placement students, you'll have the support necessary to learn, grow and practice your newly acquired skills.
- Faculty members are experienced, caring and supportive.
- Community agencies and clinical settings recognize the certificate you'll earn.
Career Outlook
- Personal Support Worker
- Home Support Worker
- Home Health Care Worker
- Personal Care Attendant
Education Pathways
Graduates of this Personal Support Worker certificate program have the opportunity to apply learning achieved at Centennial for credits toward further study. Listed below are institutions offering pathways for this program.
Please note that each receiving institution has minimum admission requirements in order to qualify for transfer credits, which are assessed by the receiving institution.
| Region | Institution |
|---|---|
| Toronto GTA | Centennial College Bridging to Practical Nursing (7997) - Admission |
| Ontario | Nipissing University |
For more detailed pathways information, visit Centennial College's Outgoing Educational Pathways portal.
Use the Education Pathways Checklist (pdf) as a guide as you explore your options.
For pathways to other Ontario post-secondary institutions, please visit ONTransfer.
Educational Partners
Our partner for this Living Classroom is the Salvation Army Meighen Manor Health Centre.
Placement Partners
All placement partners are shared with Practical Nursing, including hospitals, long-term care, retirement homes, group homes, adult day programs and additional placement agencies.
Admission Requirements
Academic Requirements
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), or equivalent, or mature student status (19 years or older)
- Grade 12 English (C or U), or equivalent (minimum grade required), or take the Centennial English Admission Test
Additional Requirements
How to Apply
1. Apply Online
Domestic Students
If you are applying through the Better Jobs Ontario Program, please work with an Employment Ontario service provider. For more information go to Better Jobs Ontario Program.
If you have previously attended a full-time program at Centennial College, you may be eligible for a Program Transfer. Visit Enrolment Services at any Campus for information.
All other applicants must apply online at Ontariocolleges.ca. A non-refundable application fee must accompany applications. The fee is payable online, by telephone, online banking, by mail, or in-person to Ontariocolleges.ca. For more information go to Ontariocolleges.ca Application Fees.
International Students
Apply directly to Centennial College here.
2. Submit Documents
Domestic Applicants
Current Ontario high school students and graduates from Ontario high schools: Notify your guidance counsellor that you have applied to college and your school will forward transcripts to Centennial College via Ontariocolleges.ca.
Graduates of college/university, or high school outside Ontario but within Canada: You are responsible for requesting that your educational institute sends any required documents and transcripts to Ontariocolleges.ca.
International Applicants
Please refer to the International Education Application Guide.
3. Confirm Your Offer of Admission
Offers of Admission are sent by mail to eligible applicants. When you receive your offer, you must login to your account at Ontariocolleges.ca and confirm before the Deadline to Confirm noted in your offer letter.
You may confirm only one college and one program offer at a time.
You must confirm your offer by the Deadline to Confirm noted in your Offer of Admission letter or your seat may be given to another applicant.
When you confirm your Offer of Admission at Centennial College you are given access to your personal myCentennial account where you can check your email, grades, register for courses, pay tuition fees, and see your class timetable.
4. Pay Fees
Centennial fees statements are sent by email to your personal email account and to your myCentennial email account. Fees statements are not mailed.
You must make a minimum payment by the Fees Deadline noted in your Fees Statement or your seat may be given to another applicant.
5. Build Your Timetable (Register for Courses)
Build your timetable (web-register for courses) at my.centennialcollege.ca.
Your web-registration will not open if:
You have not submitted your minimum fee payment by the deadline
You received a Conditional Offer of Admission and you have not met the conditions of your offer.
Once you have paid your fees or have made appropriate arrangements, register for your courses online through myCentennial.
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:
- Work within the personal support worker role in various care settings in accordance with all applicable legislation, standards, employer job descriptions, policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Practice professionally, and be accountable for one's own actions by applying problem-solving, self-awareness, time management and critical thinking to the provision of care as a personal support worker, whether working independently or as a member of a team.
- Practice as an engaged member of the interprofessional team to maintain collaborative working relationships for the provision of supportive, safe, responsive and competent client-centred care within care settings.
- Provide person-centred care, based on ethical principles, sensitive to diverse personal and family values, beliefs, cultural practices and other needs, which follows the plan of care.
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients and their families using effective communication skills to build a genuine, trusting, and respectful partnership, in accordance with professional boundaries, employer policies, confidentiality, and privacy legislation.
- Identify relevant client information within the roles and responsibilities of the personal support worker using observation, critical thinking, and effective communication skills to report and document findings.
- Create, promote and maintain a safe and comfortable environment for clients, their families, self and others by implementing current infection prevention and control measures, emergency and first aid procedures, and best practices in pandemic planning that are in keeping with the plan of care, all applicable legislation, and employer policies and procedures.
- Assist clients across the lifespan with activities of daily living by applying fundamental knowledge of growth and development, psychological concepts, common alterations in functioning, health promotion, disease prevention, rehabilitation and restorative care, and holistic health care.
- Assist the client with medication following the client's plan of care, and if a delegated act, under the supervision of a regulated health professional or done by exception under the most accountable person and in accordance with all applicable legislation and employer policies.
- Assist with household management services and instrumental activities of daily living in accordance with the plan of care and considering the preferences, comfort, safety and autonomy of clients, families and significant others.
- Assist and support clients who are caregivers, considering individual and family choices, professional boundaries and the direction of the plan of care.
- Identify, respond to and report potential, alleged, suspected or witnessed situations of abuse, and/or neglect, as required by all applicable legislation, including the Retirement Homes Act, 2010 and the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007, and as required within the employers' job description for the personal support workers.
- Assist with the provision of holistic health care and advocacy for culturally safe and spiritually sensitive palliative and end-of-life care to clients and to their families and significant others from diagnosis through to death and bereavement, and in accordance with clients’ choices and the plan of care.
- Provide client-centered and client-directed care to individuals experiencing various mental health illness and challenges, cognitive and intellectual impairments, and/or responsive behaviours by using supportive approaches and evidence-based practices to promote positive and safe behaviours in clients.
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Renzo Baniqued, Personal Support Worker, GraduateThe best part of this program was the clinical experience. The faculty here in the Personal Support Worker program ensured that we entered our placements with not only knowledge, but also pure confidence and faith within our own selves.
This clinical experience tested each student in multiple areas, such as time management, heath assessment, documenting, critical thinking, and communication skills. I successfully graduated with honours and got an acceptance to the Practical Nursing Program here at Centennial College. I’m currently in my third semester, and with no hesitation, I can honestly say, that taking the PSW program helped make me excel in the nursing program. I highly recommend the Personal Support Worker program to any students wanting to experience what It means to be a personal worker, or wanting to understand if the health care field is for them.
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