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Ontario is providing incentive funding to attract personal support workers (PSWs) to work in long-term care homes as well as home and community care agencies.

Available Funding:

Up to $5,440 to PSW students as a stipend during their clinical placement in a long-term care home and/or home and community care setting.

For eligible PSWs making a 12-month employment commitment to a long-term care home or home and community care organization:
  • Recruitment Incentive of $10,000;
  • Relocation Incentive of $10,000 to support relocation costs to a rural, remote, or northern community that is at least 100 km away from their principal residence;
  • NEW: Rural, Remote and Northern Incentive of $10,000 to eligible PSWs recruited to a rural, remote or Northern community.
All participating employers must be a publicly funded Long-Term Care Home or Home and Community Care agency in Ontario.

All employers must submit this Employer Application Form to participate, even if they were approved in a previous cohort of the PSW Return of Service (ROS) Program.

Visit https://www.ontariohealth.ca/about-us/news/update/psw-graduate-incentive for more information.

Send an email to info-hfo@ontariohealth.ca if you have questions prior to completing this application form.

Questions marked with * are required.

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* 1. Organization Name

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* 2. Organization Type

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* 3. Organization Mailing Address

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* 4. Site Address(es) - Please include full addresses for all sites where a PSW may be hired to work:

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* 5. Email Address for the Primary Contact for this Application

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* 6. Primary Contact for this Application:

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* 7. Additional Contacts - Please provide the full name, title, email and phone number for at least one additional contact related to this application:

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* 8. In a 12-month period, approximately how many PSWs does your organization expect to recruit through the PSW Recruitment Incentive?

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* 9. In a 12-month period, approximately how many PSW students does your organization expect to support in their clinical placement?

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* 10. How many PSWs does your organization currently employ?

**Note: if any of the values below should be 200 or more, please enter the details in the Comments.

  Permanent Temporary
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* 11. How many PSW vacancies do you currently have at your organization?

**Note: if any of the values below should be 200 or more, please enter the details in the Comments.

  Permanent Temporary
Full-Time
Part-Time
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* 12. Please confirm each of the following statements by selecting an answer from the drop-down menu for each one:

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Your organization is a publicly-funded Long-Term Care home or Home and Community Care agency.
The PSW funding will not replace any existing employee incentives currently offered by your organization.
Your organization has in place a suitable Human Resources (HR) infrastructure with sufficient capacity to onboard and support newly hired PSWs.
Any PSW recruited through the Recruitment and Relocation Incentives will be offered full-time hours (defined as a minimum of 30 hours per week on average).
Your organization has the necessary finances to support the ongoing employment for the number of PSWs identified in this application.
By submitting this application, you are confirming that the above statements are true.
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