College Certificate - Personal Support Worker

This one year Ontario College Certificate trains personal support workers in personal care and assistance, safe transfers and body mechanics, cognitive and mental health support, palliative care, infection control and the documentation standards that regulated care settings require.

A field placement is recorded inside the one year structure by the source. Placements sit in long term care homes, community care and hospital settings, and in a sector this short staffed the placement very often converts directly into a job offer.

Confederation College lists this program as PGWP aligned under CIP code 51.2602. As a one year credential the Post Graduation Work Permit is normally limited to the program length rather than three years, and it does not meet the two year threshold used by the Thunder Bay Rural Community Immigration Pilot for its graduate work experience exemption. Students planning permanent residence should weigh that carefully against the speed and low cost of the credential.

Entry is Grade 12 / High School with 50 percent per the portal export, and the English profile is IELTS 6 overall and no band below 5.5, recorded against Ontario college program code 0630/0620/0634.0 overall and no band below 5.5. Recorded tuition is CAD 18,627 for the year, and the program offers the widest intake choice in the certificate group with September, January and May starts.

This program presents the sharpest strategic choice in the catalogue. It is fast, cheap and almost guaranteed to lead to employment in a chronically short staffed sector, and it is offered in three intakes a year. But at one year it produces a shorter work permit and does not meet the two year threshold the Thunder Bay immigration pilot uses for its graduate exemption. Students who want quick Canadian work experience are well served. Students building toward permanent residence should consider using it as a first step rather than the whole plan.