Supply Education Assistant

**APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE POSITION OF**

**SUPPLY EDUCATION ASSISTANT
**Daily Rate of Pay: $158.16**

**Working Hours: 6 hours, 40 minutes/day, excluding unpaid lunch break**

**Our Vision**
At the Toronto Catholic District School Board, we transform the world through witness, faith, innovation and
action. Leadership at Toronto Catholic is servant-like, visionary, empowering and inclusive. We seek colleagues
who demonstrate a powerful personal mission and commitment through action to these principles. We are
committed to fairly and objectively recruiting and selecting leaders and staff who are excellent role models,
visionary and innovative, student-focused, committed to diversity, inclusion and equity and are also collaborative
in building a Catholic community.

**TORONTO CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD:
**The TCDSB is an inclusive learning community rooted in the love of Christ. We educate students to grow
in grace and knowledge and to lead lives of faith, hope and charity. At Toronto Catholic, we have a long
and distinguished history of providing excellence in Catholic education for the Toronto community.
Catholic Social Teachings, the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations and the Board’s Pastoral
Plan are foundational to our exemplary approach to teaching and learning in the 21st century.

The TCDSB is proud to be a significant part of the fabric of publicly-funded Catholic education in the
province of Ontario. We serve more than 91,000 students in our 196 Catholic schools in the city of
Toronto and represent close to 475 000 catholic school supporters.

TCDSB maintains a roster of temporary/casual staff for assignment to cover employee absences. Supply
staff are assigned from a pool on an as-needed basis.

The primary function of an Education Assistant is to provide assistance to students in the areas of
spiritual, education, social, behavioural and physical needs. The position will often require-heavy lifting.
Special programs encountered in the classroom include: 

Autism  Speech 
Behavioural  Hearing (sing language) 
DD - Developmentally delayed  Resource classes - learning disabilities 
MH - Multiple Handicapped  ME - Multiple Exceptionalities
- Minimum of grade 12 Ontario, or equivalent. Preference will be given to those that hold an

Education Assistant Diploma, a Child and Youth Worker Diploma, or a Child and Youth Care
Diploma.
- Pastoral Reference Letter from a Roman Catholic Parish, indicating you are a practicing Roman

Catholic (dated within the past 12 months), or a Baptismal Certificate from a Roman Catholic
Church. (Note that a positive pastoral reference will be required to be considered for a
permanent position).
- Resume and Cover Letter addressed to the Sr. Manager, Recruitment.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
Consistent with the TCDSB’s Employment Equity policy and Multi-Year Strategic Plan, the TCDSB is strongly
committed to fostering and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse stakeholders and
minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous and women. You are invited to voluntarily indicate if you
identify as one or more of the aforementioned communities. This information will be kept confidential.

**Barrier-Free Recruitment and Selection**
TCDSB embraces the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and as such,
is committed to creating an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Please inform the Human
requirement for an accommodation. The need for documentation to support the accommodation will be
requested as required prior to the implementation of any accommodation measures.

**We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.