With a Health and Wellness Specialist High Skills Major, students focus on a career path to match their skills and interests in this sector. By making courses more relevant to students, kids get a better understanding of the Health and Wellness sector because they learn it in a real world environment. Students learn on the job with employers through Co-op and Experiential Learning opportunities, as well as in school. At graduation they receive a specially designated diploma.
A Health and Wellness SHSM may be for you if you are interested in any of the following careers:
Apprenticeship Training
Child and Youth Worker
Early Childhood Educator
Educational Assistant
College
Ambulance Attendants and Other Paramedical
Occupations
Biomedical Engineering Technologist
Community and Social Service Worker
Dental Hygienist or Dental Assistant
Documentation Clerk
Funeral Director or Embalmer
Health Care Aide
Hospital Information Clerk
Medical Laboratory Technician
Medical Secretary
Pharmacy Technician
Practical Nurse
Primary Care Paramedic
Registered Massage Therapist
Registered Orthopedic Technologist
Respiratory Therapist
University
Audiologist or Speech-Language Pathologist
Chiropractor
Dentist
Dietitian
Family, Marriage and Other Related Counsellors
Hospital Equipment Sales Representative
Kinesiologist
Medical Microbiologist
Medical Sonographer
Midwife
Nutritionist
Optometrist
Pharmacist
Podiatrist
Psychiatrist
Registered Nurse
Sports Therapist
Workplace
Blood Donor Clinic Assistant
Certified Personal Trainer
Doctor's Office Receptionist
Fitness Instructor
Hospital Admitting Clerk
Hospital Cleaner
Hospital Porter
Lifeguard
Recreation Program Leader
A Health and Wellness SHSM will provide students with an assortment of the following TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS specific to the Health and Wellness sector: