Immigration to Canada by internationally-trained nurses, orderlies and other healthcare workers boomed last year as healthcare authorities recruited abroad to resolve a serious labour shortage.<\/p>\n
Through the\u00a0Express Entry<\/a> system, the number of new permanent residents who came to fill healthcare openings jumped by 28.1 per cent last year, to 2,595, compared to 2,025 the previous year, the latest data reveals.<\/p>\n Under Canada\u2019s National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 system of categorizing occupations, these include the following job titles and occupational codes:<\/p>\n Ottawa has recognized that demand is still very high this year for these highly-skilled workers and so last year the Canadian immigration department included nurse\u00a0aides\u00a0and\u00a0orderlies\u00a0among the workers who can immigrate to Canada under the Express Entry\u00a0Federal Skilled Worker<\/a>\u00a0(FSW) program.<\/p>\n Read More<\/b><\/p>\n Manitoba Targets Retail Sales Workers In New Canada Immigration Draw<\/a> The change to the FSW which made that possible came on Nov. 16 when IRCC added 16 new jobs to its list of eligible occupations under that worker immigration program. That increased the number of eligible occupations under the FSW on the same day the\u00a0(NOC) 2021 came into effect at the IRCC to 359.<\/p>\n The full list of newly-added jobs on the list of eligible occupations under the FSW includes:<\/p>\n Healthcare worker can also immigrate to Canada through the\u00a0Express Entry system\u2019s Canadian Experience Class<\/a> program.<\/p>\n Through their\u00a0Provincial Nominee Programs<\/a>\u00a0(PNP), provinces and territories can also nominate healthcare workers for permanent residence if they meet particular regional labour market needs and intend to settle in that province or territory. Provinces can recruit candidates from the\u00a0Express Entry\u00a0pool or they can nominate individuals under their non-Express Entry paper-based streams.<\/p>\n Nurse\u00a0aides\u00a0and\u00a0orderlies\u00a0are the lifeblood of any hospital or nursing home as they are the people who help nurses, physicians and other hospital staff in the basic care of patients. In Canada, they earn a median annual income of $40,950 based on a standard, 37.5-hour work week, according to data from the Job Bank federal job-hunting and career-planning website.<\/p>\n If you are a candidate looking for a Canada job, or an employer looking to recruit foreign talent from abroad, immigration.ca can help. Access our expertise through our in-house recruitment enterprise\u00a0<\/b>www.skilledworker.com<\/b><\/a>, \u201cthe leader in foreign recruitment\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n That same website ranks the job prospects for nurses and orderlies as \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cvery good\u201d throughout the country until at least 2031 with 21,000 more jobs opening up than there will be people in Canada to fill them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFor nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates and other assisting occupations in support of health services, over the period 2022-2031, new job openings (arising from expansion demand and replacement demand) are expected to total 191,000 , while 170,100 new job seekers (arising from school leavers, immigration and mobility) are expected to be available to fill them,\u201d notes the Job Bank website.<\/p>\n Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\n\n
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