Healthcare Students Land Hospital Jobs
April 20, 2010
Great news from the program that uses Chedoke Hospital as a classroom and co-op placements at local hospitals.
You may have read here in recent months about the certification of 18 students from nine schools in the school-to-work Healthcare Support Services Program. Well, there’s more great news from the program that uses Chedoke Hospital as a classroom and co-op placements at local hospitals.
Teacher Teresa Anziano reports that Hamilton Health Sciences – which runs the program in partnership with HWDSB – has hired three students from the program. They made the grade after applying for the 32 positions posted, along with about 1,500 other applicants.
HHS has hired Brittany Griffin (Hill Park), Brittany McAloney (Sherwood) and Nadia Niamat (Hill Park). Anziano said the trio demonstrated their skills and work ethic in nine-week placements at HHS hospitals, and impressed coaches, managers and site leaders who became their advocates.
“The teachers, guidance counsellors, co-op teachers and administrators who directed their students to this program should be commended for opening doors that would otherwise never have been possible for them,” Anziano said. “I am so proud of these students and everything they have accomplished.”
Hill Park student Nadia Niamat, who has started work at Henderson Hospital, said the healthcare support service program was great because it gave her almost three months of experience in the hospital setting.
“It looked great on my resume that I already had volunteer experience doing a job that I wanted to apply for. Also the opportunity was unbelievable because I was able to basically get an all-access pass to the hospital. I was all over the hospital and was able to see things first-hand and getting to see all the staff working hard which really was amazing.”
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