Piece of work in the wellness care sector

COVID-19 has increased the need for wellness care administration in long-term care and assisted living settings across the province. The Health Career Access Program provides a path for applicants with no wellness intendance feel to get hired and receive paid employer sponsored health care assistant training as part of their employment.

Last updated: April 6, 2022

On this folio:

  • Why work in health care
  • Available positions
  • Bring together the Wellness Career Access Program
  • Submit your expression of involvement
  • Recruitment procedure
  • Current communities with the highest needs

Why work in health care

B.C.'s wellness care arrangement provides disquisitional services that we all use. Employment is stable and available in communities across the province.

Employers offering reliable employment with competitive salaries and benefits. Benefits may include a alimony plan and medical, dental and extended health care coverage.

Passionate and caring health intendance workers make a difference in their communities every day. The sector is committed to creating working environments that support and value diverse skills and lived experiences.

Information technology is important that the workforce reflects the people they support. The Health Career Access Program is committed to inclusive hiring practices, providing equal opportunity for participation to underrepresented groups, including women, Ethnic peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and LGBTQIA2S+ applicants.

How to get your career started

COVID-19 has increased the need for health care assistants in long-term care, dwelling house support and assisted living services.

Normally, to go a health care banana, you must complete six to eight months of post-secondary education at your ain expense earlier you can utilize for a position.

Through the Health Career Access Program, the Province will pay for your mail-secondary pedagogy.

New hires in the program beginning in a health care support worker position and receive paid training that leads to full qualification as a health intendance banana.

Role descriptions

All successful programme applicants must kickoff as a health intendance back up worker earlier advancing to a health care assistant position.

Health intendance support worker

Health care support workers are supervised by registered nurses or other regulated health intendance professionals. They provide a variety of critical non-clinical, non-direct care supports to patients and residents.

Typical duties include:

  • Participating as an integral fellow member of a health care delivery team
  • Establishing a caring relationship with clients, residents and families
  • Providing support and help with mealtime activities
  • Providing back up and assistance in carrying out activities
  • Performing housekeeping duties
  • Greeting and directing visitors
  • Restocking supplies
  • Completing and maintaining relevant records

Health care back up workers earn $21.37 an hour.

Health care banana

Health care assistants are members of the health care team who provide personal care in a variety of health care settings including acute care hospitals, assisted living facilities, group homes, residential intendance and community care.

They are supervised by registered nurses or other regulated health care professionals and follow established intendance plans to provide personal care such as bathing, grooming, dressing, assisting with meals and oral hygiene.

Other duties include:

  • Helping in the delivery of nursing care, including taking temperature, pulse and respiration readings
  • Documenting information on a patient's chart
  • Responding to phone call bells/alarms in hospital settings
  • Observing and monitoring patient progress, symptoms and behavioural changes and reporting significant observations
  • Utilizing mechanical aides (specialty beds, lifts, wheelchairs and stretchers) to transport patients
  • Providing assistance with positioning, lifting and/or transferring patients using established lifting/safety techniques
  • Maintaining a clean and safe environment for patients and staff

On average, health care assistants earn an annual provincial salary of $45,883.

  • Find out more than about what a Health Care Assistant is, what they do, and the qualities that make someone a good fit
  • Watch a video highlighting the health care assistant office

Join the Health Career Access Program

The Health Career Access Program happens in three stages.

Stage 1: Start as a health care back up worker

Submit your expression of interest.

Following your expression of interest, your proper name and contact data will be shared with employers recruiting for health intendance support worker positions in your preferred region or community.

If you lot receive and take an offering of employment under the program, work and training will begin.

Please note that you must be a Canadian denizen or permanent resident to participate at this time.

Required qualifications

By order of the Provincial Wellness Officer, all health care staff who work in B.C. must be fully vaccinated against COVID-nineteen. You are fully vaccinated xiv days later your second dose of vaccine.

Applicants to HCAP should be prepared to provide proof of vaccination to employers during the application process.

  • Hospital and Community (Health Intendance and Other Services) COVID-19 Vaccination Status Data and Preventive Measures – October 21, 2021 (PDF, 524KB)
  • Residential Care COVID-19 Vaccination Status Data – October 6, 2021 (PDF, 506KB)

Education

  • Grade x, including the successful completion of English ten, or equivalency
    • English language competency requirements are established past the BC Care Adjutant and Customs Health Worker Registry
    • Assessment criteria differ between individuals whose first language is English and those whose first linguistic communication is non English
    • Some mail service-secondary institutions may take higher didactics requirements. Tuition-free upgrading may be bachelor

If English language is not your get-go linguistic communication, English Language Learning courses are available.

Skills

  • Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
  • Power to establish and maintain relationships with clients, residents and coworkers
  • Power to work independently and in cooperation with others
  • Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
  • Ability to operate related equipment

Stage 2: Complete bones training and onboarding

All newly hired health care support workers must complete a provincially standardized training and onboarding program. This is provided by your employer.

You volition be paid for your fourth dimension and any course fees will be reimbursed.

Stage 3: Become a health intendance assistant

After you complete basic training, you enter a structured, mandatory wellness care assistant education program that you complete while you lot are working.

  • Employees who do not undertake the health care assistant training are not eligible to piece of work as health intendance support workers and have their salary paid by the province
  • The program is delivered equally a partnership between your employer and an established post-secondary institution
  • It will take most a year complete and is provided to y'all at no cost

Health care back up workers volition be paid $801 a week while attending total-time class or participating in clinical preparation as office of the pedagogy program.

On completion of the program, yous earn a recognized post-secondary credential and are eligible to register every bit a health care banana. Once registered every bit a health care assistant, participants will complete a 12-calendar month return of service.

Wellness care assistants can work beyond B.C. in long-term care and assisted living facilities, provide community abode back up and contribute to care that is delivered in acute care hospital settings.

Submit your expression of involvement

Be prepared to provide:

  • Kickoff and last proper noun
  • Phone number
  • E-mail address
  • Postal lawmaking
  • Preferred health region (where y'all want to piece of work)

Submit your expression of interestThe course takes less than 5 minutes to complete.

Recruitment process

In one case you have submitted an expression of interest, you are entered into a pool of applicants that is viewable past employers participating in the program. These employers may so engage applicants directly to talk over opportunities, asking work histories and other documents, schedule interviews, and hire successful applicants. Delight annotation, depending on geographical demand, not all applicants may be contacted direct by employers.

Information technology is important to know that to work in the long-term care and assisted living sector, participants will need to undergo a Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Cheque equally part of the hiring process.

Delight brand certain that you provide contact data where you can be hands reached so yous do not miss any opportunities.

Current communities with the highest needs

There is high need in the following communities and available participants may be hired sooner.

If you lot are interested in working in whatsoever of the following communities, please email HCAPInfoQuery@gov.bc.ca with:

  • Your name
  • Electronic mail address
  • Phone number
  • Location

For home support, let u.s. know if you currently have a BC driver'south licence and access to a reliable vehicle.

  • Burns Lake
  • Vanderhoof
  • Smithers
  • Terrace
  • Prince Rupert
  • Chetwynd
  • Fort Nelson
  • Dawson Creek
  • Fort St John
  • Fort St James
  • Quesnel
  • Prince George
  • Kamloops: home back up and some long-term care
  • 100 Mile House: long-term care
  • Kelowna/West Kelowna: abode back up and some long-term care
  • Penticton and South Okanagan: home support
  • Salmon Arm, including Shuswap: home back up
  • Vernon: home support
  • Creston: long-term intendance
  • Hope
  • Agassiz
  • Chilliwack
  • Mission
  • Sechelt: long-term care and dwelling house support
  • Sea to Sky: abode support
  • North Vancouver: long-term intendance and home back up
  • Bella Bella: long-term intendance
  • Bella Coola: dwelling support
  • Cormorant Island: long-term care and home support
  • Mt Waddington (Port Hardy and Port McNeill): long-term intendance and home back up