Stenberg College

Do you enjoy working with children? Do you want a rewarding career helping individuals with diverse abilities achieve their full potential? Consider a career as an Education Assistant.

Education Assistants support students who may require additional support with behaviors, specialized needs, academics or ELL (English Language Learning). Graduates of Stenberg’s Education Assistant program are prepared to work in public and private schools, child care centres, community drop in centres and more.

There are few things in life as rewarding as helping individuals with exceptionalities reach their full potential. Education Assistants assist elementary and secondary school teachers by supporting students who many require specialized needs instruction. Stenberg’s Education Assistant graduates are in high demand by school districts throughout British Columbia.

Caring and compassionate by nature, counsellors are drawn to the profession by a desire to help. Whether supporting someone through a challenging time, motivating them to achieve their goals, or guiding them to personal insights, a counsellor helps others to change their own lives. Whether you want to pursue the rewarding career of counselling or to use counselling skills in your personal life or in another helping profession, our Counselling Therapist Diploma program will give you the knowledge, tools, and confidence to apply your natural compassion as a skilled helper.

Counsellors support diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups of people through personal and interpersonal challenges and mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. Based on the extensive competency profile of the Federation of Associations for Counselling Therapists of British Columbia (FACTBC), our Counselling Therapist Diploma qualifies you for membership with multiple counselling associations. Competency-based counsellors are an important part of British Columbia’s mosaic of mental health professionals.

Our Counselling Therapist program is built on a foundation of evidence-based practice, reflective practice, and ethical practice. You will develop an understanding of the biological, psychological, and social underpinnings of everyday human problems and mental health issues, as well as frameworks to change them. 

Under the guidance of expert counsellor instructors and practicum supervisors, you will apply and deepen your learning throughout the program with in-class role plays and weekly integrated practicum hours with real clients

Are you looking for a rewarding career in hospital administration? As a Hospital Support Specialist, you will be trained to provide valuable clerical, secretarial, and administrative support in public and private health care settings. Hospital Support Specialist graduates can hold a variety of job titles, but typical duties can include the admitting and registration of patients into various departments and/or hospital units, billing, collecting patient data, data entry, clerical tasks, and retrieving, assembling, and disassembling patients’ charts.

Stenberg College is the only private post-secondary school in BC offering this unique industry-specific program specializing in administrative duties within the health care field. Hospital Support Specialist students receive training in medical terminology, professional communications, office operations, keyboarding/data entry, registration, diagnostic imaging, the release of information, health records clerical duties, Meditech, and other computerized health information systems as applicable.

This program will prepare graduates for entry-level employment as an Admitting/Registration Clerk, Health Records Clerk, Diagnostic Imaging Clerk, Hospital Switchboard Operator, Medical Secretary, and much more.

If you’re looking for a rewarding career in healthcare administration, you’ll love being a Medical Office Assistant. Medical Office Assistants assist in preparing patients for physicians, surgeons and practitioners, and perform general office and medical office duties.

Medical Office Assistants perform a variety of administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians and other healthcare practitioners running smoothly. Typical job duties include measuring vital signs, preparing patients for physical exams, assisting pediatricians with children, preparing surgical trays, performing billing and bookkeeping, working with patient charts and data, and arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services.

Are you organized, detail-oriented and professional? If this sounds like you, consider a career as a Nursing Unit Clerk. Nursing Unit Clerks act as the heart of a health care unit by maintaining the pulse. They direct resources, communicate with patients, nurses and doctors, and ensure urgent tasks are completed efficiently. A Nursing Unit Clerk must be able to multitask, work in a fast-paced environment, and possess strong communication skills.

Nursing Unit Clerks are the anchors of patient care departments. They focus on the non-clinical tasks of the department, and deliver and communicate physician’s orders with nursing staff and the other departments (laboratory, diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, dietary, and therapy).

Depending on the health care environment, Nursing Unit Clerks may also be referred to as Nursing Unit Coordinators, Nursing Unit Assistants or Health Unit Coordinators.