Information about a communication course appropriate for social workers and other health professionals
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Alex Alexander
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:36:52 -0400
From: ie...@ryerson.ca
Subject: Information about a communication course appropriate for social workers and other health professionals
To: ieswn...@ryerson.ca
Dear IESW Network members,
In our work with the internationally educated social workers, over the past many years, the IESW Bridging Program team has realized that there are relatively few free courses for immigrant professionals trained in human services field to improve their language and communication skills. To address this need IESW Bridging Program has teamed with Colleges Ontario (Occupation Specific Language Training Project) to create a course targeted towards internationally educated social workers, dietitians, physiotherapists and nurses at CLB 7/8.
We are pleased to share with you that George Brown College will be running a professionally infused language and communication course appropriate for health and human service professionals from September – December 2012. This course might be helpful for internationally educated social work professionals working/hoping to work in the social services field.
Permanent residents or convention refugees with CLB 7/8 can apply to take this course. Please review the course details below before sending an inquiry to os...@georgebrown.ca.
Workplace Communication Skills for
Inter-professional Health Care Providers
What is Workplace Communication Skills for Inter-professional Health Care Providers?
This course, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), addresses communication skills needed for successful communication in inter-professional health care teams for dietitians, nurses, physiotherapists and social workers. Communication skills covered in the course include:
· being able to describe one's occupation to another health care professional
· communicate assertively and effectively with team members, colleagues, clients and their families
· providing and obtaining information on a client's care
· writing a progress note
· seeking and providing assistance to team members
· managing challenging team interactions
Why should I participate?
By taking part in this 140-hour course (100 hours in-class & 40 hours on-line) participants will develop their communication skills for working on inter-professional health care teams. At the end of the course participants will receive a letter of completion.
What are the requirements for participating?
Suitable candidates are permanent residents or protected persons (convention refugees) that have:
· experience and training as a dietitian, nurse, physiotherapist or social worker.
· Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) 7/8 (CLB assessment must be taken within 6 months of the start date of the OSLT course)
Date: September 25 – December 6 2012
Days: Mondays and Wednesdays
Time: 9:30am – 2:30pm (9 hrs/week + 4 hours/week online)
Location: George Brown College, St. James Campus – King and Sherbourne
Contact: 416.415.5000 x 6980 Email: os...@georgebrown.ca