Cert in Personal Support Worker at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada is a certificate in Health Sciences programme. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
Personal Support Worker is a one-year, two-semester Ontario College Certificate delivered at Centennial College's Morningside Campus, combining classroom instruction with extensive clinical placements. The first semester covers foundational content including anatomy, communication skills, human development across the lifespan, mental health foundations and a hands-on skills lab. The second semester adds palliative care and clinical and community practice, including fourteen weeks of supervised practical experience with care teams in hospitals, long-term care homes and community settings. Across the program, students work toward fourteen defined vocational learning outcomes covering professional accountability, interprofessional collaboration, client-centred care and safe practice. Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent with Grade 12 English, a vulnerable-sector police check, current CPR and first aid certification, and up-to-date immunizations and mask-fit testing. The certificate prepares graduates to work as personal support workers, home support workers or home health care workers in hospitals, long-term care facilities, retirement homes, community agencies and schools, making it suited to students seeking direct entry into frontline personal care roles supporting people with physical disabilities, cognitive impairments and chronic or acute illness.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: An OSSD or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 or older, with Grade 12 English (C or U) at the stated minimum grade, or Centennial's English Admission Test. All applicants must show English language proficiency. Before field placement you need a clear police check with vulnerable sector screening dated within six months of the placement start, the immunisation requirements set out on the form supplied by the program coordinator, CPR at Healthcare Provider level renewed annually, a recognised standard first aid course, and mask fit testing provided by the College. International applicants apply directly to Centennial rather than through the Ontario colleges portal. Morningside Campus, with September, January and May starts, each open to domestic and international applicants.
Application Details
Start Date:January and May
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
