Personal Support Worker (PSW)

Become a certified Personal Support Worker, earn secondary school credits, and gain quality employment in the health care field. 95% of our PSW program graduates have employment in their field within 6 months of graduation! Usually, students are required to attend an information session before applying to the program – however this has been waived at this time.

Please watch the video below regarding the PSW Program through the following videos:

Belleville/Trenton Information Video

Kingston Information Video

Only those who are accepted into the program or for the waitlist will be contacted. If your application is not complete you will automatically be disqualified.   *Please note you need to be successful in the program and must meet all of the conditions in order to qualify for the funding.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the PSW teacher in your area:

Belleville & Picton Karen Mayer at: mayerkar@alcdsb.on.ca

Kingston Carole Finn at: finnca@alcdsb.on.ca

Trenton Kim Harvey at: harvkim@alcdsb.on.ca

PSW Information

Benefits:

• Teacher-led instruction by Registered Nurses who are also certified teachers (OCT)
• 10 month –  20 hours per week program Monday to Friday, September to June
• Supervised clinical placements

Choose from:

• Personal Support Worker (PSW) (6 credits)
• Pre Health and Science Program (up to 6 credits)
• PSW plus Pre Health and Science Program (up to 9 credits)
• Health Care Aide Upgrade to PSW (up to 5 credits)

Achieve:

• PSW Certification following Provincial learning outcomes plus six Ontario Secondary School credits
• First Aid & CPR, GPA, PAC, WHMIS, Safe Food Handling
• Portfolio Development

Employment Possibilities:

• 95% of students are employed in the field within six months of graduation
• Home Care Agencies
• Long Term Care Facilities
• Group and Residential Homes
• Retirement Homes
• Hospitals