Essential Employability Skills – Health Sector: Final Report

Introduct ion This report presents the findings of the Essential Employability Skills for the Health Sector (EES-HS) project, a pilot project designed to adapt and test the transferability of an innovative and highly contextualized blended learning approach to essential and employability skills training for the health sector. [...] The intent of the program was to support the application of essential and employability skills in the workplace and the Essential Employability Skills for the Health Sector (EES-HS) participants during the workplace experience components of the project. [...] Toward the successful conclusion of the ESAF project, amid the context of a pandemic and the emerging need for additional health care workers, the project funder, the Federal Department of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), approached LCNB to undertake a subsequent project: the EES-HS pilot project. [...] P a n d e m i c - r e l a t e d c h a l l e n g e s Participating employers also identified the following challenges specifically related to the COVID- 19 pandemic: ▪ The need for additional funds to cover costs related to disinfecting and screening ▪ Not having enough staff to meet the residents’ needs ▪ The overall impact of the pandemic and the changing COVID-19 rules and/or guidelines ▪ Findin. [...] The functions of the Steering Committee were to: ▪ Provide guidance and to advise ▪ Review project documents/reports and provide feedback to the Project Manager ▪ Ensure the project was delivered according to the objectives, activities, scope, time, quality, and cost in accordance with the funding agreement ▪ Provide a forum to communicate appropriate project information back to key stakeholders w.