Continuing Care Assistant

Continuing Care Assistant Program: Your Path to a Rewarding Career in Healthcare

Remote Delivery

Program Length:

25 Weeks

Program Hours:

686

Dartmouth

Program Length:

25 Weeks

Program Hours:

686

Sydney

Program Length:

25 Weeks

Program Hours:

686

Online Learning

Program Length:

Hybrid

Upcoming Start Dates

Remote Delivery:

June 16, 2025

June 23, 2025

August 5, 2025

Dartmouth:

June 16, 2025

June 23, 2025

August 5, 2025

Sydney:

June 16, 2025

June 23, 2025

August 5, 2025

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Continuing Care Assistant Program: Your Path to a Rewarding Career in Healthcare

The Continuing Care Assistant program at CBBC Career College is your gateway to a fulfilling and high-demand career in healthcare. Designed with your success in mind, our hybrid delivery model combines the convenience of remote learning with the hands-on experience needed to excel in this essential field. Here’s what sets our program apart:

Flexible and Efficient Learning Model

The Continuing Care Assistant program structure includes:

Remote Theory Classes: Learn foundational healthcare concepts from the comfort of your own home, guided by experienced instructors.
In-Person Labs: Gain practical skills through interactive, hands-on training in a supportive environment.
Work-Term Placement: Apply your knowledge in a real-world healthcare setting, building valuable experience and confidence.

This hybrid approach offers you the flexibility to balance your studies with personal and professional commitments, making it easier to achieve your career goals.

A High-Demand Career Awaits

Continuing Care Assistants are essential members of the healthcare team, providing compassionate support to individuals in need. With a combination of theoretical knowledge, hands-on training, and real-world experience, you’ll graduate fully prepared to make a meaningful impact in hospitals, long-term care facilities, home care, and community settings.

Start your journey toward a rewarding career in healthcare with CBBC Career College’s Continuing Care Assistant program. Your future as a compassionate and skilled healthcare professional begins here.

Apply now and take the first step toward a brighter future!

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Job Market

As the global population continues to age, there is an increasing demand for healthcare services, including long-term care and support for elderly individuals. CCAs play a crucial role in providing direct care and assistance to seniors in various settings such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home care.

Salary Information

Nova Scotia
Average Wage ($/hr) – $19.39
High Wage ($/hr) – $23.71

Canada Wide
Average Wage ($/hr) – $22.00
High Wage ($/hr) – $26.00

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Program Outline

Please click on the course title to see the course description.

This course is designed for adult learners to enhance their academic skills and professional readiness. It prepares learners with essential strategies to succeed in a multifaceted learning environment and develop professional workplace readiness skills. Through interactive discussions, practical exercises, and self-reflection, participants will develop the confidence and skills necessary to thrive in both their studies and careers. By the end of this course, students will feel empowered in their learning journey and prepared to navigate both academic and professional landscapes.

This course allows the student to cultivate an awareness of medications and the role of the CCA in supporting the needs of a person. The SoP and the Framework identifies the role of a CCA in medication administration and students gain hands-on experience applying medicated and non-medicated drops, ointments, and creams. Students will gain a basic understanding of medications and the effects to support their tasks and responsibilities specified in the SoP.

This course prepares students to recognize and support persons living with various mental health disorders. The course introduces types of mental health disorders, identifies impacts of mental health disorders, neuro-affirming care, and prevention and intervention strategies for behaviour expressions. This course extends the knowledge students acquired from Course 3 – DUTJ by providing practical application for behaviour expressions.

This is an introductory course of basic body structures, functions, and related health issues common within Continuing Care. The student will gain a basic understanding of the normal structure and function of the body systems and be introduced to signs and symptoms of ineffective functioning, common illnesses/conditions, and the related care implications. This course aims to connect body anatomy and physiology to the technical skills and tasks of a CCA to draw the connection between theory and practical application to the role of a CCA.

This is a lab and simulated course that integrates theoretical learning across the program into practical experience. The objective of this course is to provide real-world simulated scenarios that incorporate as many of the CCA competencies and skills across a full process/task sequence. The instructor’s main objective is to connect the theoretical learning from Course 8 Body Structures & Functions into application to draw the connections from theory into practice. This is a test-try learning environment where the instructor is encouraged to pause, change a status/condition/illness/need, and resume during a scenario. Instructors can also pause and restart scenarios. Ratio of supervision will be maintained at 1 instructor to 8 students. This course is segmented into 3 parts to provide an integrative skill development approach to learning. Each part is dispersed across the program to provide instructors with the time required to develop scenarios and prepare the lab environment.

Segment 2 – Clinical Placement: The student will apply technical and essential skills identified in the Practicum Guide Mentorship Checklist for supporting persons in care with the oversight and guidance of a CCA Mentor within a Long-term Care facility. The Student will demonstrate technical and essential skills identified in the Practicum Guide: Skills Assessment within a Long-Term Care facility under direct supervision by a Primary or Secondary Instructor. Segment 4 – Mentorship Placement: Open; The student will demonstrate entry-level technical and essential skills as identified in the Practicum Guide: Mentorship Checklist Open for supporting persons in Home Care, long-term care, or acute care setting with the oversight of a CCA Buddy.

The student is introduced to the principles of body movement and safety to be followed during the performance of all direct and indirect assistance activities in the classroom, lab, and placement settings. The student will acquire and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure personal safety and that of the person when assisting with positioning and transferring. The learning of this course aligns and integrates with PACE.

No two persons experience dementia in the same way, and there is no singular approach to supporting persons living with dementia. The course provides a range of information that should be used to support and enhance the student’s approach. Each of the sessions leads into the next, supporting the care practices collaboratively and collectively. The session addressing behaviours is situated toward the end of the course. In doing so, we want the student, as a care provider, to understand that if they approach care for persons with dementia in ways that are appropriate and meaningful for them, they can reduce the potential for, or eliminate, behaviours that are difficult to understand. Earlier sessions provide the information to set up relationships, approaches, and environments that best meet the needs of the person living with dementia. As the course progresses, tools and approaches are offered to assist the student in recognizing when to change their own perceptions and approach. The program finishes with a session dedicated to the student as the care provider and their role within a care team, as well as barriers they may encounter.

In this course students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to successfully participate in lab demonstrations and practicum placements. This course focuses on the fundamentals of a CCA deepening their understanding of the SoP and the Framework by exploring and practicing the behaviours and essential skills of a CCA. Additionally, students will build the foundational knowledge of teamwork, reporting & documenting, infection control, and risk management to develop the theoretical foundation to inform and shape their approach to care.

Admissions Requirements

Continuing Care Assistant Program Admission Requirements

Grade 12 or GED, or Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning (NSSAL) Certificate
High School Graduate with an IPP/IEP identified, must:
- Demonstrate minimum literacy and numeracy skills through a Program Administrator approved testing tool

Alternate Entrance:

Be a minimum of 19 years of age and have been out of school for at least one year
Demonstrate the necessary numeracy and literacy skills
Achieve a minimum score of 12 on the Wonderlic assessment test

Additional Requirements

Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector Check indicating no criminal conviction (current Canada wide police check) – the check must be dated less than 6 months as of the program start date
Proficient in the official language in which the Program is delivered; as required, a recognized testing tool will be used to gauge proficiency.
Language proficiency level will meet or be equivalent to the Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) Level 8 as per the CCAPAC Admission Requirements
Interview with an Admissions representative

Student discloses the ability to meet requirements on admission:

Travel to and from placements using transportation that is acceptable to the placement site
Perform basic computer literacy skills (basic word processing, checking and sending email, basic web browsing skills) before skills development placement
Perform job requirements (physical and other)

Practicum Requirements:

No later than 14 days before the first date of the work placement in the Progressive Education Continuing Care Assistant program, proof of immunizations against the following must be provided:

Tetanus/Diptheria
Hepatitis A/B
Tuberculosis (Tuberculin Test – PPD)
COVID-19 double vaccination

Students must submit a second criminal record check with vulnerable sector search for practicum. Previous CRC/VSS submitted for Admissions is not acceptable. A second check is required.

Language Requirements:
All students need to meet or exceed the language requirements set by CBBC Career College. Click here to learn more.

This program is an excellent fit for:

Someone who wants their career to make a positive impact.
Someone determined to build strong and meaningful relationships with both your colleagues and patients.

Why choose the Continuing Care Assistant program?

The demand for Continuing Care Assistants is often high, which can provide you with job stability and a range of career options.
Several different opportunities for employment, including self-employment, full-time or part-time.

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With career support for life with CBBC Career College, our experts will help find you employment no matter how long ago you graduated.
You don't need three to four years of school to enter the workforce with the skills to start a great paying career!

Your future is our priority

Start school NOW with most program intakes happening frequently (no need to wait!)
No waiting lists, even in our most-popular programs. We'll get you the job training you need to start your career ASAP.
We take a student-centric approach to learning, with small class sizes to empower you to collaborate with your peers and receive more attentive support from your instructors.

Career-relevant education

Our programs are programs aligned with real-world, in-demand occupations. We will get you job-ready!
Most CBBC Career College programs include practicum experience so you can hit the job search running with a great education AND experience.
We have real relationships with employers who are waiting to hire qualified CBBC Career College graduates!

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Continuing Care Assistant Program: Your Path to a Rewarding Career in Healthcare

Continuing Care Assistant Program: Your Path to a Rewarding Career in Healthcare

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A High-Demand Career Awaits

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Why choose the Continuing Care Assistant program?

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