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Graphic header promotes Specialist High Skills Major program

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.

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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:

  • CPR
  • WHMIS
  • Infection Control
  • Standard First Aid
  • Ambulation, Lifting and Transfers
  • Automated External Defibrillation
  • Behaviour management
  • Coach/Personal Trainer
  • Communication Skills
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Customer Service
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Feeding Assistance
  • Fitness
  • Group Dynamics
  • Lab Practices
  • Leadership - Group Activities
  • Marine and Wilderness First Aid
  • Medical Terminology
  • Non-Violent Crisis Intervention
  • Personality Inventory
  • Safe Body Mechanics
  • Safe Food Handling - Basic
  • Sign Language
  • Specialized care
  • Sterile Techniques
  • Suicide Prevention



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