Home Support Worker Diploma

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 DEVELOP NEW SKILLS

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.

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS 

As a requirement for graduation from the Home Support Worker Diploma, students must provide the following to IBT College before a diploma can be issued:

1. CPR and Standard First Aid Level C (completed within 1 year)

2. Record of Mask Fit Test completed by a third party within 1 year

3. Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination 

4. Prior of 2-step TB Skin Test

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