Interested in becoming an SHSM student? Talk to your teacher or guidance department today!
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.
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 Orthopaedic 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