Certificate in Personal Support Worker

at Cambrian College - Barrydowne Campus Canada

Cambrian's accredited Diagnostic Medical Sonography – Ultrasound program will prepare you for entry-level roles in hospitals, medical clinics, and private industry. You'll enjoy wide-ranging job opportunities, a higher than average salary, and a career where you'll be making a difference in the lives of patients.

You will learn to safely use scanning equipment and imaging techniques to produce images of a body part or system, skills that can be required throughout the different departments of a clinical facility including the trauma unit, operating room, and intensive care area, as well as the diagnostic imaging department.

To graduate from this program, you must demonstrate scanning abilities at a level of competency defined by Sonography Canada and within the timelines set out in the curriculum. Also, you will be expected to rotate to one or more sites during your placement component.

Arm yourself with the necessary skills in human resources, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, and operations in order to play an important role in any small- to large-sized business, as well as entrepreneurial ventures. In your third year, you can choose a specialization in one of two key areas: marketing or management, and will put your skills to work in a field placement in your final semester.

Program Highlights

• Industry experienced professors provide real-world connections to learning
• Flexible learning options (traditional classrooms, online options, and virtual classes)
• Opportunities for experiential learning through clubs and competitions
• 7 to 8-week unpaid placement provides valuable real-world experience and connections to the business world
• Course options allow you to build specialized skills in marketing, management, and/or business planning
• Opportunities to earn a degree through articulation agreements with various universities

Fieldwork/Placement
All Business Administration students are required to complete an unpaid placement in the final semester of the program. The placement provides an opportunity for students to put their business skills to the test in an actual workplace of their choice. This hands-on approach allows students to gain experience in their chosen field while building relationships and their resumes.

After an introduction to basic work practices and training on the proper use of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and shop equipment, you will learn how to diagnose and perform quality repairs for the various sub-systems of vehicles, including:

• Computer systems
• Emissions systems
• Braking systems
• Fuel injection systems
• Heating and cooling systems
• Drive train systems
• Steering and suspension systems
• Power train control systems

Courses will be a 50/50 split between hands-on and classroom training.
Special focus will be placed on electrical systems and electronic components throughout the program while performing service and or diagnostic repairs according to manufactures procedures.

Optional Paid Co-op
Our program features an optional, paid co-op directly related to your program of study. During this work-integrated learning experience, you’ll apply your skills and knowledge in an actual work environment, giving you industry training that you can showcase to potential employers when you graduate.

You will be required to complete work preparation sessions prior to the work term to help you develop an industry-specific resume and effective interviewing skills. Cambrian’s Career Centre will support you through this process and will also help you to source and apply for placement opportunities.

International students: Study permits prohibit international students from participating in optional co-ops. However, if you are an international student and are interested in work-integrated learning opportunities, visit Cambrian’s Career Centre to discuss available options with a career advisor. Opportunities may include volunteer positions or part-time or full-time jobs during academic breaks and/or during the academic year.

Human resources professionals know all too well that a company is only as good as the people it employs. Get the skills and experience to become a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) by exploring recruitment, training, organizational management, compensation,  labour relations, and more.

The curriculum is designed to boost your existing qualifications and to support you if you intend to pursue your Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation. The program provides all nine necessary courses required to complete the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario's (HRPA) coursework requirement, the first step in obtaining the CHRP designation. Additional courses include mediation, practitioner seminars, and an eight-week placement in a professional human resources environment. Information on the Human Resources Professionals Association and the CHRP designation is available by visiting www.hrpa.ca.

Fieldwork/Placement

• Semester three will be an eight-week, unpaid work placement.

As a student in Early Childhood Education at Cambrian College, you will have the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for the field of early learning and child care. Your studies will blend the theory of child growth and development with practical application experiences in the field.  Through Interactive classroom experiences you will design, plan, implement, and evaluate play-based learning for young children from birth to twelve years of age.

The program will prepare you to work with and support the diverse needs of the children and families you will encounter in your future work. You will build a foundation of understanding that children learn through play. This learning approach combined with a culturally-relevant environment will reflect that children are curious, capable, competent, and rich in potential.

Investigate your imaginative potential as you get familiar with the establishments of music recording, altering, and execution, and build up the interchanges aptitudes important to start exploring the music business. Your examinations will receive a hands-on way to deal with little scale, PC based account and altering, give a diagram of the underlying foundations of prominent music and current patterns in the music recording industry, and acquaint you with the business aptitudes expected to effectively advance yourself and your work. 

You will have the chance to work in industry-standard labs with experienced experts and gain from Cambrian's reality class music staff in a one-on-one exercise condition to guarantee your melodic abilities progress in venture with your specialized learning. 

This program is the ideal venturing stone in the event that you are keen on further examinations in sound chronicle and music generation or on the off chance that you wish to seek after autonomous music recording and organization as a profession. The Certificate in Independent Music Production program is offered for 1 year (2 semesters) inside which understudies can work intimately with the world-class personnel to improve their melodic capacities.

The mining industry is dynamic and ever-changing, and Cambrian's Mining Engineering Technician program will challenge you to explore why and how things work and to find innovative solutions to problems.

As you learn and live in one of the mining centres of the world, you will prepare to become part of mining engineering teams responsible for a wide range of projects involving surveying, drafting, design, environmental studies, industrial geological and geophysical fieldwork, ventilation, ground control, and supervision.

Industry-experienced faculty members will guide your progress and understanding through examples gained from industry experience, field trips in the renowned Sudbury basin and surrounding area, and hands-on demonstrations. You will benefit from a variety of experiential learning opportunities, including activities at an active mine site to gain a broad understanding of the various aspects of mining engineering as well as communication and leadership skills.

Fieldwork/Placement
There is a field school for 10 days following the end of the second semester.  Students complete applied projects related to study areas within the mining program.
An optional Co-op Placement is may be available for up to 16 weeks following fourth semester.

There isn’t a better time to maximize your leadership potential than by expanding your management skills through this one-year program which is intended to provide career advancement into management roles. This is also in response to succession planning, a challenge that most organizations are facing these days as a quarter of the workforce, including managers, are planning retirement within the next five years.

In the program, you will take a series of carefully selected business courses that will build and enhance your skills in critical areas of management such as in accounting for non-financial managers; financial decision making; managerial economics; business ethics and corporate, social, responsibility; organizational behaviour and human resources management; managerial communications; marketing strategy; data analysis using Excel; business strategy; new venture creation; negotiation and leadership; and legal aspects of business.

Become an integral member of a healthcare team focusing on maintenance and rehabilitation of physical health, function and mobility. The Massage Therapy program at Cambrian College provides students with rigorous academic preparation, hands-on massage therapy and assessment skills, as well as clinical experience needed to become a successful massage therapist.

Students gain a deep knowledge of musculoskeletal anatomy in order to help clients manage a variety of conditions that involve muscle, nerve, fascia, lymph and joints of the body.  Physical assessment and treatment planning as well as an introduction to research in the health sciences are key components of the Massage Therapy program.  The program offers instruction through in-class lectures, simulations and lab experience, as well as four on-site and three off-site clinical placements.  The off-site clinical placements are designed to give students an opportunity to practice massage therapy in diverse healthcare settings.

This advanced diploma emphasizes professionalism in healthcare. Massage therapists are regulated health professionals operating under the Regulated Health Professionals Act and the Massage Therapy Act.  Massage therapy in Ontario is regulated by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario. 

Clinical Placement
Students must meet the following requirements to attend on-site clinical placements as well as community based placements.  Students will be responsible for any expenses incurred related to placement.

• Up-to-date and clear Criminal Record Check, including Vulnerable Sector Check.  Individuals who have been charged or convicted criminally and not pardoned will be prohibited from proceeding to a clinical or work placement.  Students should obtain their Criminal Record Check three months prior to their first clinical placement so that it is current for the whole program.
• Standard First Aid and CPR Level HCP (Health Care Providers) - Canadian Heart and Stroke Guidelines
• Respiratory Mask Fit Testing (N95-3M models)
• Immunization requirements:
  • Varicella
  • Measles, Mumps, Rubella
  • Tuberculosis Screening
  • Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis immunization
  • Hepatitis B
  • Influenza Vaccination

Cambrian College's Cybersecurity program is a one-year graduate certificate offering designed to address the industry's increasing demand for well-educated security professionals in the public and private sectors.