Personal Support Worker Humber Polytechnic

Overview

This Personal Support Worker certificate programme from Humber Polytechnic is designed in collaboration with industry, ensuring you are learning current and relevant material. 

Key facts

You will learn:

• the developmental stages across the lifespan, and the communication and interpersonal skills needed for effective client relationships
• the essentials of providing personal care, applying mobility techniques (lifting and transferring clients), and household management and safety
• key issues of mental health disorders
• skills in dealing with common medical conditions including facilitating rehabilitation exercises and assisting with medications

Through assisting individuals at a long-term care facility and in other settings, you will learn to recognize the physical and emotional changes of aging and illness, and become familiar with the restorative techniques used to maximize independence.

Provide compassionate care to those in need with a career as a personal support worker.

You will be qualified to provide services to clients and their families in a variety of health-care settings such as:

• clients’ homes
• hospitals
• long-term care facilities
• palliative care centres