Personal Support Worker

Do you want a career where you can make a difference in someone’s life? Would you like to get educated and start working in a short amount of time? If you’re caring by nature consider becoming a Personal Support Worker.

As a Personal Support Worker, you would provide personal care and companionship for those living with disability, disease, or old age. You would help with meal preparation, feeding, bathing, personal hygiene, and housekeeping duties. A healthcare worker or nurse may also direct you to assist with tasks like administering medication and collecting specimens (under their supervision). Most important, being a Personal Support Worker means you have to be patient and sensitive to your client’s needs.

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Become Qualified in Personal Support Work

The Personal Support Worker certificate program at Oxford College prepares you for careers in a range of healthcare settings. The program gives you hands-on training and theoretical knowledge required for a rewarding career as a Personal Support Worker.

As a Personal Support Worker, you will provide personal care to seniors, persons with disabilities, and convalescent clients. Care is provided within the client’s residence, in which the Personal Support Worker may also reside. Personal Support Workers ensure the safety and well-being of their clients and demonstrate sensitivity and respect for each individual in their care.

During the Personal Support Worker certificate program, you’ll learn how to:

• Provide care and companionship for individuals and families during periods of incapacitation, convalescence, or family disruption
• Administer bedside and personal care to clients such as aid in ambulation, bathing, personal hygiene, and dressing and undressing
• Plan and prepare meals and special diets, and feed or assist in feeding clients
• Perform routine health-related duties such as changing non-sterile dressings, assisting in the administration of medications and collecting specimens under the general direction of a home care agency supervisor or nurse
• Perform routine housekeeping duties such as laundry, washing dishes, and making beds

Countless Career Opportunities

Graduates are employed by home care and support agencies and private households, or they may be self-employed.

Upon completion of the program, you may find employment as:

• Personal Support Worker
• Personal Care Attendant
• Live-in Caregiver
• Residential Support Worker