Camosun College offers Health Care Assistant Certificate - ESL, a certificate in Health Sciences programme in Victoria, Canada. The programme runs for 11.5 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,418 per total (CAD 3,200 per total for local students).
Designed for English-as-a-second-language students, the certificate builds the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to work as a front-line caregiver and respected member of a healthcare team across community and facility settings, delivering person-centred care under the direction of a health professional that supports clients' physical, emotional, cognitive and social wellbeing. Instruction combines healthcare content taught by School of Health and Human Services faculty with English language study under an ESL instructor, alongside class, lab and clinical placement experience throughout.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This certificate is designed for applicants whose first language is not English, and it sets its own language-proficiency bar in place of a general secondary-school English requirement. Accepted scores, valid within the stated window, are: CLB Placement Test - Listening 6, Speaking 6, Reading 5, Writing 5 (within 1 year); CAEL or CAEL Online - overall 50 with no section below 40 (within 2 years); IELTS Academic or General - overall 5.5, minimum 5.5 in Speaking and Listening, no band below 5 in Reading or Writing (within 2 years); TOEFL iBT - overall 56, minimum 15 in Speaking and Listening, minimum 13 in Reading and Writing (within 2 years); or CELPIP General - Listening 6, Speaking 6, Reading 5, Writing 5 (within 2 years). LINC report cards showing Completing CLB 6 across all four skills, with a recommended placement of Level 7, are also accepted. Applicants must attend an information session (or complete the online module) and an informational interview with the HCA-ESL instructor, and international applicants need a clear police certificate from their country of origin. Intake is every October.
Application Details
Start Date:October
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC for Camosun's open-enrolment programmes: for Fall 2027 (September) applications open 1 October 2026 with an early deadline of 15 May 2027 for priority registration and a late deadline of 26 August 2027; Winter 2027 (January) runs 15 September 2026 to 7 January 2027, and Summer 2027 (May) 15 January 2027 to 29 April 2027. Limited-enrolment programmes publish only an opening date and can close once the waitlist exceeds the seats on offer. International applicants must submit a complete application by 1 June (Fall), 1 October (Winter) or 1 February (Summer), though later applications are still reviewed while seats remain, making admission effectively rolling for both groups once the early deadlines pass. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
