Cert in Personal Support Worker (Schlegel Villages - Taunton Mills) is a certificate in Health Sciences programme offered by Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per total (CAD 2,775 per total for local students).
The programme builds the knowledge and skills for compassionate personal support care across a broad range of conditions, including cognitive impairments, physical disabilities, and both chronic and acute illness, delivered at the Schlegel Villages Taunton Mills location in Whitby. Coursework focuses on home and health-related services that transfer across long-term care facilities, community residential agencies, schools, private homes and hospitals, taught through a hands-on approach by faculty with hospital and community health care experience. Students complete 14 weeks of practical placement experience and gain exposure to caring for clients across the lifespan, working within an interprofessional health care team. Completion can lead into a bridging pathway from Personal Support Worker to the Practical Nursing diploma.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus Grade 12 English (College or University level), or a pass on Centennial's English Admission Test. The programme page defers standardized-test scores to the college's general language-proficiency page, whose Standard Programs scale applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band under 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67 with Reading at least 16 and Writing at least 23, PTE Academic 51 or higher, or Duolingo 105 or higher. Before clinical placement, students must obtain a clear vulnerable-sector police check issued within six months of the placement start date (any prior record must be pardoned), complete the programme's immunization requirements, hold current CPR at the Healthcare Provider level and a standard first-aid certificate, and attend mandatory mask-fit testing. No minimum admission GPA is published.
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.
