Education and development
We are proud to support some of VCH’s most important work—ensuring staff and health-care professionals have the right skills and abilities to deliver exceptional services at the forefront of health care.
Training and opportunities to support your growth
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Indigenous cultural safety (ICS) training
VCH’s Indigenous Health team offers a wide range of resources, tools and learning opportunities to help us better understand Indigenous experiences in health care, healing and wellness practices.
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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training
VCH’s DEI training program aims to improve our collective inclusion literacy, understanding of unconscious bias and cross-cultural competencies to lay the foundation for building a better workplace.
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Career pathways
Leadership development to support your ability to transform health care
VCH supports our leaders and aspiring leaders in reaching their full potential to cultivate a values-based culture that will create the conditions necessary to transform health care.
Our leadership development team offers individual and team coaching, cohort programs as well as a variety of workshops to help our people develop knowledge, deepen their leadership skills and build the confidence needed to lead through complexity and change.
For employees and medical staff, we offer a series of online workshops to learn practical skills to help navigate and influence change, build and maintain positive working relationships, and become a more effective communicator.
For frontline leaders or those that are transitioning into a leadership role, we offer a cohort Frontline Leadership Certificate Program to learn critical fundamentals of leadership to identify and manage conflict in the workplace, provide skillful feedback, and develop and enhance relationships to empower teamwork.
VCH understands the important role leaders play in connecting with the hearts and minds of our workforce to improve client services and provide exceptional patient care. We believe that learning is a critical factor of performance and motivation at work, and investing in our leaders’ development helps to make VCH a great place to work.
Your opportunity awaits
Vancouver Coastal Health offers several 100% funded training programs to support your growth or entry into health care. Explore a few of the opportunities available across our organization.
Health Career Access Program (HCAP)
Get paid to learn and have a job waiting for you as soon as your training is done with the VCH Health Career Access Program (HCAP) to become a registered care aide. As long as you’ve completed Grade 10 in high school – including English 10 or equivalent – and have a valid driver’s license, you can apply for this program which offers an easy-entry, financially supported start to long-term career growth opportunities across VCH.
Educator Career Pathway
For RNs and RPNs with a passion for education, Educator Career Pathway® and Simulation Learning Strategies offer exciting opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills in teaching and learning. This unique opportunity supports your career mobility and contributes to building education capacity as well as grows your knowledge and skills to implement and evaluate a curriculum.
Regional Perioperative Education Program (RPEP)
Registered nurse education to support your entry into a career in the operating room.
Specialty Nurse training opportunities
For nurses with a current practicing registration with BCCNM and up-to-date CPR, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) offers employer-paid education programs for experienced registered nurses. In addition to 100% subsidized education, we will cover books and wages while in training.
Regional Home Health Education Program (RHHEP)
Interested in pursuing a career in Home Health? In addition to 100% subsidized education, VCH will cover books and wages while in training. The training program consists of eight weeks of classroom and online training mixed with hands-on, preceptored patient care to consolidate learning.