Casual Educational Assistant

Casual Educational Assistant

$23.26 per hour

As a Casual Educational Assistant you will work on call in short-term and long-term assignments at multiple schools throughout the diverse communities of Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board including Hamilton Mountain Hamilton Downtown Waterdown Flamborough Dundas Ancaster Mount Hope Binbrook Stoney Creek and Winona.

The Role

As a member of a multidisciplinary team of professionals you will provide a range of supportive interventions for students who exhibit self-regulation social emotional physical and/or medical needs. This could include but is not limited to:

• Support students with diverse needs such as physical intellectual behavioural learning disabilities and/or students with multiple disabilities.
• Support and collaborate with the teacher to meet the needs of students primarily those with special in regular and special education classes.
• Assist on a regular basis with hygiene which could include support with toileting diapering and dressing.
• Lift and reposition students (as trained by physical/occupational therapists).
• Follow the guidelines of student accommodation and support plans.
• Participate in all legislative professionaldevelopment as well as all other PD identified by HWDSB.

All new hires will be invited to participate in our *NEW* Educational Assistant onboarding program that includes BMS training essential skills training EasyConnect training and three days of job shadowing.

Education Experience & Skills

To perform the duties of the role we are looking for the following qualifications experience and skills:

• Diploma as an Educational Assistant Child and Youth Worker Developmental Services Worker or Social Service Worker. Equivalent and/or similar volunteer work and lived experience will be taken into consideration.
• Training in one or more of the following areas: Behaviour Management Systems (BMS)/Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assistive technology sign language First Aid and CPR.
• Cultural and ability sensitivity related experience supporting individuals with special needs.
• The ability to perform physical tasks including dressing feeding lifting/re-positioning transfers toileting and diapering.
• A valid and clear vulnerable sector check for employment purposes (at candidate expense).
• The ability to start work immediately.
  

We encourage using your cover letter as an opportunity to explain how your work volunteer and/or lived experience supporting individuals with special needs translates to this role.

How to Apply

Please apply directly onApplyToEducation. Mail-in applications will not be processed.

When applying to HWDSB throughApplyToEducationyour application package must include:

• Resume

Method of interview: Panel interviews via MS Teams platform. *Candidates will be asked to show government-issued photo identification at the time of interview to confirm their identity.* All personal details may be covered by candidate.

Posting close date: October 26 at 4:00 pm

Tentative interview dates: Interviews are tentatively scheduled for November 19 & 20th.

Start Date: Successful candidates will be eligible to pick up casual work immediately.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

• Indigenous Peoples (e.g. First Nations Métis and Inuit peoples).
• Members of groups that commonly experience discrimination due to race ancestry colour religion and/or spiritual beliefs or place of origin (e.g. Black and racialized communities immigrant communities etc.).
• Persons with visible and/or invisible (physical and/or mental) disabilities.
• Persons who identify as women.
• Persons of marginalized sexual orientations gender identities and gender expressions. (i.e. Two-spirit and LGBTQIA).

Land Acknowledgement

HWDSB is located on ancestral Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Confederacy land as determined by the Dish with One Spoon treaty. The Dish with One Spoon wampum belt represents the treaty relationship between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Anishinaabe with respect to sharing the land and resources thereon. The intent of this agreement is for all nations sharing this territory to do so responsibly respectfully and sustainably in perpetuity. We respect the longstanding relationships with the local Indigenous communities the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Six Nations of the Grand River.

Applicant Self-Identification Form

The information collected on this form is used to monitor HWDSBs progress toward our equity goals including our commitment to diversity in HWDSB recruitment and hiring practices.

We are committed to the security and confidentiality of information under our control and to the protection of privacy with respect to personal and confidential information that is collected used disclosed and retained in the system(Policy 1.6 - Privacy). Information on this form is collected pursuant toOntarios Education Equity Action Plan(Ministry of Education) and in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act(MFIPPA). Access to this form is restricted to specific individuals in Human Resources. The Research and Analytics Department will use aggregate data from all the forms (not individual data) for internal reporting. Their access and use of the data is governed by MFIPPA andethical research practices. Applicant Self-Identification Forms will be maintained in the Human Resources job competition file and securely destroyed 1 year after the job posting for candidates not selected for an interview and 6 years after the job posting for candidates interviewed in accordance with general records retention principles.

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