Personal Support Worker (PSW)
The Northwest International University Personal Support Worker (PSW) program will equip participants with the relevant special skill sets required to help patients, clients, and residents with various conditions and health care needs in a nurturing environment. As you care for patients with compassion and help them with things like personal hygiene, making meals, running their homes, and dealing with different long-term conditions, you often form close and rewarding relationships with them.
The Personal Support Worker (PSW) program
The Personal Support Worker courses of the university will cover all home and health-related services that people with physical disabilities, cognitive problems, and long-term and short-term illnesses need. The skills and knowledge you learn will give you the freedom to work in places like hospitals, homes, schools, community residential agencies, and long-term or chronic-care facilities.
The Personal Support Worker program offers a fast-track, hands-on skills training program with a practicum guaranteed, which can often lead to employment in the vibrant city of any country.
PSW Education
To become a successful PSW, you’ll need a creditable certificate in personal support work or health care assistant from a university /college or an accredited educational institution.
These certificates typically take some months to complete, but Northwest International University has introduced an accelerated PSW training program that lasts less than others but effective and qualitative!
These programs will provide you with field placements so you can get the experience you need to succeed
Participants of our PSW courses will have direct experience working in a healthcare setting before you graduate, gaining necessary skills and experience that will be useful in securing a job later.
The Personal Support Worker program offers a fast-track, hands-on skills training program with a practicum guaranteed, which can often lead to employment in the vibrant city of any country.
PSW List of Titles
- Attendant for persons with a visual impairment – home care
- Attendant for persons with disabilities – home care
- Client care attendant – home care
- Companion
- Domestic helper
- Doula
- Family caregiver
- Family worker – home care
- Home health care worker
- Home helper
- Home support attendant
- Home support worker
- Home-care worker
- Live-in caregiver
- Live-in caregiver – persons with disabilities
- Live-in caregiver – seniors
- Personal aide – home support
- Personal assistant – home care
- Personal care aide – home care
- Personal care attendant – home care
- Personal care provider – home care
- Personal support aide – home aide
- Personal support worker – home support
- Respite worker – home support
- Teaching homemaker
- Visiting homemaker
Employment Requirements
- Some secondary school education is usually required.
- Home management experience may be required.
- College or other courses in home support may be required.
- First aid certification may be required.
- Completion of a training program in care of the elderly, care of persons with disabilities, convalescent care or in a related field may be required.
