Work in the health care sector

COVID-nineteen has increased the demand for health care assistants in long-term intendance and assisted living settings across the province. The Health Career Access Plan provides a path for applicants with no health care experience to get hired and receive paid employer sponsored health care assistant training as part of their employment.

Last updated: Apr half-dozen, 2022

On this page:

  • Why piece of work in health intendance
  • Available positions
  • Join the Health Career Access Program
  • Submit your expression of involvement
  • Recruitment process
  • Current communities with the highest needs

Why work in health care

B.C.'s health care system provides critical services that nosotros all use. Employment is stable and bachelor in communities across the province.

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

Passionate and caring wellness intendance workers brand a departure in their communities every day. The sector is committed to creating working environments that back up and value diverse skills and lived experiences.

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

How to become your career started

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

Normally, to become a wellness care assistant, y'all must complete six to eight months of mail-secondary education at your own expense before you tin apply for a position.

Through the Health Career Access Program, the Province volition pay for your post-secondary education.

New hires in the program starting time in a health care back up worker position and receive paid training that leads to full qualification as a health care banana.

Role descriptions

All successful programme applicants must first as a health care support worker before advancing to a health care assistant position.

Health care back up worker

Health care back up workers are supervised by registered nurses or other regulated health care professionals. They provide a diverseness 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 squad
  • Establishing a caring human relationship with clients, residents and families
  • Providing support and assistance with mealtime activities
  • Providing support 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.

Wellness care banana

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

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

Other duties include:

  • Helping in the commitment of nursing intendance, including taking temperature, pulse and respiration readings
  • Documenting information on a patient's nautical chart
  • Responding to telephone 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 administration earn an almanac provincial salary of $45,883.

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Join the Wellness Career Access Programme

The Health Career Admission Program happens in three stages.

Stage one: Start as a health intendance support worker

Submit your expression of involvement.

Following your expression of involvement, your proper noun and contact information will be shared with employers recruiting for health intendance back up worker positions in your preferred region or customs.

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

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

Required qualifications

By social club of the Provincial Health Officer, all wellness care staff who piece of work in B.C. must be fully vaccinated against COVID-nineteen. You are fully vaccinated 14 days afterward your second dose of vaccine.

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

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

Education

  • Grade 10, including the successful completion of English x, or equivalency
    • English language competency requirements are established by the BC Care Aide and Customs Health Worker Registry
    • Assessment criteria differ between individuals whose offset linguistic communication is English language and those whose first language is non English
    • Some post-secondary institutions may have higher educational activity requirements. Tuition-costless upgrading may be available

If English is non your start linguistic communication, English language Language Learning courses are bachelor.

Skills

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

Stage 2: Consummate bones training and onboarding

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

You will exist paid for your time and whatsoever course fees volition exist reimbursed.

Phase 3: Become a wellness intendance assistant

After y'all complete bones training, you enter a structured, mandatory health care assistant educational activity program that yous complete while you are working.

  • Employees who do non undertake the health care assistant grooming are not eligible to work as health care support workers and have their bacon paid by the province
  • The program is delivered every bit a partnership between your employer and an established mail service-secondary institution
  • It will take about a twelvemonth consummate and is provided to you at no cost

Wellness care support workers will be paid $801 a week while attending full-fourth dimension grade or participating in clinical training equally part of the education program.

On completion of the program, you earn a recognized mail service-secondary credential and are eligible to annals equally a wellness care assistant. Once registered every bit a health intendance banana, participants will complete a 12-month return of service.

Wellness intendance assistants tin work across B.C. in long-term care and assisted living facilities, provide customs habitation support and contribute to care that is delivered in astute care hospital settings.

Submit your expression of involvement

Exist prepared to provide:

  • First and final proper noun
  • Telephone number
  • Electronic mail address
  • Postal code
  • Preferred health region (where you lot want to piece of work)

Submit your expression of interestThe class takes less than v minutes to consummate.

Recruitment procedure

Once you have submitted an expression of interest, you are entered into a puddle of applicants that is viewable by employers participating in the program. These employers may so appoint applicants direct to discuss opportunities, request piece of work histories and other documents, schedule interviews, and rent successful applicants. Please note, depending on geographical need, not all applicants may be contacted straight by employers.

It is important to know that to work in the long-term intendance and assisted living sector, participants will need to undergo a Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check as role of the hiring process.

Please brand sure that you provide contact data where yous can be easily reached and so yous do not miss any opportunities.

Current communities with the highest needs

At that place is loftier demand in the post-obit communities and available participants may exist hired sooner.

If y'all are interested in working in whatever of the following communities, please email HCAPInfoQuery@gov.bc.ca with:

  • Your proper noun
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Location

For abode back up, let united states know if you currently have a BC driver's 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 support and some long-term care
  • 100 Mile House: long-term care
  • Kelowna/West Kelowna: home back up and some long-term care
  • Penticton and S Okanagan: home support
  • Salmon Arm, including Shuswap: dwelling support
  • Vernon: home support
  • Creston: long-term care
  • Hope
  • Agassiz
  • Chilliwack
  • Mission
  • Sechelt: long-term care and dwelling support
  • Sea to Sky: abode support
  • North Vancouver: long-term care and home back up
  • Bella Bella: long-term care
  • Bella Coola: dwelling support
  • Cormorant Island: long-term care and dwelling support
  • Mt Waddington (Port Hardy and Port McNeill): long-term intendance and home support