Casual Educational Assistants Multiple Locations #3869

Job Posting

Casual Educational Assistants

Competition #3 869

Chinook School Division is seeking applications for casualEducational Assistants for the following schools:

CUPE ($19.25/hour):

Burstall Leader Sidney Street Fox Valley

Non-Union ($19.68/hour):

Waldeck Ecole Centennial Success Ruskin Hutterian O.M. Irwin Swift Current Comprehensive Creston Bench Hutterian Garden Plane Hutterian Gull Lake Consul Cabri

The Chinook School Division is proud to serve nearly 6000 students in 60 schools with over 1000 collegial and student-centered teachers and support staff. We are a vibrant and progressive school division located within Saskatchewans great Southwest. Our Division is committed to our guiding principles; Communication Shared Responsibility Positive Relationships and Ongoing Monitoring and Improvement. The Division affirms the right of all students and staff to be contributing members of a school community that is safe caring and respectful of all people.

Chinook is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our schools and workplace as indicated in AP 176. Successful candidates are expected to:

• understand the importance of supporting a welcoming environment;
• present a positive attitude towards inclusion and diversity;
• identify opportunities to support inclusion and diversity and;
• take meaningful action.
  
  

A team member who in cooperation with a designated teacher is responsible to the principal for assisting with the educational program of selected students in order to improve the students instructional learning opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise student in the classroom play lunch or rest area and during recreational activities on a one-to-one or group basis
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher supervise support and facilitate learning activities
• Assist in various life skill activities
• Assist designated disabled students in the development of gross and fine motor abilities and basic life skills by demonstration physical assistance and manipulation
• Exercise judgment in modifying student behavior by restraining directing disciplining and rewarding students within pre-established guidelines.
• Based on the needs of individual students provide designated disabled students with assistance in dressing eating toileting and transportation
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher assist assigned students with reading speech assignments tests and comprehension of presented curriculum based on the students Personal Program Plan
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher assist students who are deaf by serving as a facilitator of communication between the student and others including teachers other service providers and peers within the educational environment
• Promote the vision mission principles and goals of the Chinook School Division
• Perform such other duties and tasks as may be required due to the specialized nature of a students particular education program
  
  

• Ability and experience in working with children
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills and an ability to work in a team environment
• A positive and flexible attitude to change
• Demonstrates a commitment to truth and reconciliation
• Demonstrates a commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion
  
  

• Participation in the Municipal Employees Pension Plan
• Positive work environment
  
  

How to apply:

Interested applicants are asked to apply online via the Employment Page found at This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is will be required to create a portfolio and submit their application to competition #3869.

For more information about this position please contact Shauna Lacher Manager of Human Resources by email at

Please note: all successful applicants must agree to a Criminal Record Check including a Vulnerable Sector Search as a condition of employment.

By virtue of the submission of the application the applicant agrees that the Director or designate can contact previous employers for the purpose of conducting confidential reference checks whether or not the applicant has listed a reference for that employer.