Programme
Healthcare Connections
ACCES Employment
At a glance
- Deadline
- Runs in rounds. Next round not yet announced.
- Fee
- No fee to apply
- Who may apply
- living in Ontario, Canada
- at least one year of healthcare work outside Canada, and little or no Canadian healthcare experience
- Where
- Online, with in person opportunities, Ontario
A free six week programme for health workers trained outside Canada who now live in Ontario, run by a settlement agency funded by the federal and Ontario governments. It teaches how hiring works in Canadian healthcare, includes interprofessional healthcare communications training, and introduces you to employers who want to hire internationally educated health professionals, including non licensed roles you can take while you work on registration.
Runs in rounds. Next round not yet announced.
The facts
- What you get
- No fee and no stipend stated
- Where
- Online, with in person opportunities, Ontario
- How long
- Six weeks
Where you stand
This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.
What they ask for
- living in Ontario, Canada
- at least one year of healthcare work outside Canada, and little or no Canadian healthcare experience
- permanent resident, convention refugee, naturalised Canadian citizen, refugee claimant with a one year Canadian work permit, or Ukrainian national with a CUAET visa, depending on the stream
- English at Canadian Language Benchmark 7 or above is preferred
Get ready to apply
Built only from what this listing states.
A short application, by our reading.
1. What to get ready
It asks for something outside the usual documents; read it below.
In their words: “Registration through the ACCES portal, proof of immigration status and overseas healthcare experience”
2. Dates
- No closing date is stated.
- Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice
- On the date, the listing says: The current Community Health stream runs 8 September to 16 October 2026.
Download checklist (.txt) Send to WhatsApp
The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.
No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.
Tips for applying for a programme
General advice from us, the same for every programme. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.
- Check the dates and the time it needs. Programmes often need you at set times, and missing sessions can mean losing your place.
- Say plainly what you want from it and what you will do with it after.
- If it asks about a project or business, describe what exists today, not only what you hope for.
If there is an interview or a test
- Expect to be asked why now, and what you will do if you are not chosen.
- Be ready to describe your project in two minutes, in plain words.
All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.
How to apply
You apply on ACCES Employment's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.
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How we checked this
This was opened and verified at ACCES Employment's own website on 5 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.