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Autism Assistant

3 weeks ago

KitchenerWaterloo, Canada KidsAbility Full time

**Posting Date**:January 16, 2025

**Closing Date**: January 24, 2025

**Autism Assistant**

Up to 2.0 FTE, Contract | Feb. 3, 2025 - Dec 26, 2025
- OPSEU salary 258 salary range for Autism Assistants is $20.18 - $23.74 per hour._

**About KidsAbility**:
Our mission at KidsAbility is to empower children and youth to realize their full potential. We are a not-for-profit, equal opportunity employer supporting over 17,000 children and youth to reach their communication, social, physical, and behavioural goals each year. Providing early and exceptional family-centered services in the Waterloo and Guelph-Wellington regions. We believe that by living our values, our impact can be profound, and together, we can build brighter futures.

We’re looking for the right people to join our team; supporting children, youth, and families to realize their potential, while realizing your own. At KidsAbility, we offer:

- Mentorship, continued learning, skills development, and inter-professional collaboration
- A supportive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment dedicated to family-centered care
- Organizational commitment to innovation and research; continually evolving our approaches so we may serve with purpose and value
- Wellness initiatives, social events, and opportunities to give back to your community
- Access to Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Comprehensive benefits and optional group RRSP program, if eligible
- Short
- and long-term disability income protection benefits, if eligible
- Generous vacation package and paid personal leave days, if eligible

**About the Opportunity**:

- Completing program material requests from Clinical Supervisor specific to client-based ABA curriculum (e.g., ABLLS-R programs)
- Preparing and creating materials to support programming for children with Autism or other needs
- Ordering, managing, and organizing of resources, toys, equipment, and supplies
- Supporting clients in participating in daily routines such as washroom, snack, lunch, gym, play/ activity time etc.
- Participation in team meetings and committees
- Produces a variety of resource materials, including song boards, storyboards, token system, worksheets, crafts, group activities, and picture symbols (e.g., picture symbols used with: PECS, choice boards, visual schedules, number boards)
- Administrative tasks such as data collection may also be required

**More About You**:

- Experience with children who have a variety of developmental, physical, and communicative disorders
- Experience in working with children with special needs for a minimum of one year; knowledge of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) an asset
- Excellent computer skills and the familiarity with or willingness to learn specialized computer programs used in the production of resource materials (i.e. Boardmaker)
- Effective oral and written communication skills with high level of attention to detail and adherence to confidentiality standards
- Good customer service skills to interact with staff, parents, and suppliers
- Proven ability and willingness to work as an integral member of a team, as well as work independently with little direction, demonstrating self-motivation and initiative
- Excellent organizational, time management, problem-solving and caseload management skills in a fast-paced environment
- Standard First Aid and CPR are an asset
- Travel may be required; you must have a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle with public liability/property damage coverage

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4.5 months

Pay: $20.18-$23.74 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Kitchener-Waterloo, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- DCS / DEC (required)

**Experience**:

- Working with persons with disabilities: 1 year (preferred)
- working with children: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2025-01-24
Expected start date: 2025-02-03