Educational Assistant

7 days ago

Ottawa, Canada Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Full time

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking creative, dynamic, committed educational leaders

to join the following initiative:
Educational Assistant

100%, Term (10 month work year)

$23.45 to $24.39 per hour

Under the direction of the Principal, the Educational Assistant is an integral member of the school team and is responsible for the provision of support to students with exceptional needs within the school. The position involves dealing with confidential information and requires ongoing flexibility and variability. Responsibilities are varied, in collaboration with teaching and other professional staff, and include: supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and students with developmental disabilities; participation in pool programs, academic support, implementing special programs, support to deaf/hard of hearing or visually impaired students, physiotherapy exercises and stretches.

Educational Assistants may be required to modify programs and support learning for students with learning disabilities, and speech/language issues. Assignments may also include outside yard duties, lifting, toileting, and/or pool duties. Knowledge of Ontario Curriculum and educational communication software such as Dragon and Kurzweil are assets.

Required Skills and

Abilities

DSW/CYW/PSW

CPR and First Aid

Behaviour Management

Systems training

Autism experience

Blind-low vision

experience

Assistive Technology
- Knowledge and understanding of Boardmaker

Behaviour Modification

Communication skills

(modelling, prompting, collaboration)

Prepared to assist with

toileting and transfers

Prepared to assist with

feeding

Additional Comments:

- Yard duty and computer

skills will be part of this position.
- The ability to use

Collaborative Problem Solving and collaborate as part of a team will be an

asset for this position.
- The ability to create

visuals (PECs / schedules) for students will be part of the position.
- The ability to collect

and interpret data and program plan accordingly

Who can apply:
**Salary**:
If a term assignment is less than the school year: $23.45 per hour + 4% vacation pay and eligibility for benefits

Application Process

Applications will be considered in accordance with the terms of the Student Support Professionals’ Collective Agreement and in accordance with Policy P.146.HR Equitable Recruitment, Hiring and Promotion.

OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

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