Educational Assistant Placement Students

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**Job Title**: Casual Educational Assistant

**Job Type**: Casual positions are to be available to work a minimum of three days per week
**Salary**: $27.14 per hour
**Start Date**: February 2025
**Date Posted**: October 29, 2024
**Closing Date**: December 16, 2024 at 4:00PM
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This posting is intended for current college or university students who are doing their placement with Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPR) and are set to graduate in December, 2024. If you are *not* currently a placement student with us, please review our other postings.
**Who We Are**:
The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPR) offers a world-class education for approximately 35,000 students in 87 schools. Spanning over 7,000 square kilometers, across diverse rural and urban communities in southeastern Ontario, KPR serves the Municipality of Clarington, Northumberland and Peterborough Counties, and City of Quinte West/Murray Ward.
The Board is situated on the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg people, serving three vibrant Indigenous communities which include Alderville First Nation, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation.
Today, the Kawartha Pine Ridge school district is home to many First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and we acknowledge the contributions and accomplishments of all Indigenous people across Turtle Island, current and throughout history.
All positions in the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board support the school’s priority of student achievement and the Boards mission to educate our students to excel in learning, to succeed in life and to enrich our communities.
**Main Responsibilities**:
The purpose of the Educational Assistant position is to provide instructional support in
academic, social, physical, emotional, and behavioural programs for students in a variety of
learning situations. As well the Educational Assistant carries out personal care duties to meet
the physical needs of students. As part of the student support tea, the Educational Assistant
promotes and maintains a safe, caring, and restorative school environment.
Provide identified students with support as per strategies recommended by
occupational, physical, and communication therapists.
Transfer and lift students, using appropriate and safe techniques and devices.
Provide toileting, changing, repositioning, and dressing.
Assist students with mobility as required.
Assist in the operation of specialized equipment.
Assist in the implementation of Student Safety Plans under the direction of the
classroom Teacher and/or School Principal/ Vice-Principal.
Perform clean and intermittent catheterization.
Perform shallow and surface suctioning.
Provide assistance with Glucometer, Insulin Pump and other procedures related to
diabetes, with training as required.
Provide hand over hand feeding, food preparation, deploys modified feeding tools,
modeling, and monitoring for choking.
Administer routine medication needs as permitted under the Regulated Health
Professions Act (RHPA).
Monitor and track the health needs of the student.
Support students by promoting the development of appropriate social, communication
and behavioural skills, utilizing the strategies of Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI).
Assist in supervision needs as required, on class trips, in the classroom, washrooms and
hallways, on the yard, at lunch, during examinations, receiving and delivering students
to and from transportation, in academic groups and with individuals, and on student
transportation.
Assist with student safety issues including emergency evacuation, medical emergencies.
Participate as a member of the school collaborative team, acting as a resource to other
staff members and take part in the discussion of students’ progress and needs while
maintaining confidentiality.
Provide program support by assisting teachers with the delivery of academic and
social/life skills programs for both individual and groups of students implementing
**effective learning support strategies, including**:
Using a variety of instructional support methods, techniques and learning aids
such as scribing, correcting, prompting, reading, keeping student on task,
adapting language for redelivery, reinforcing concepts, lessons and skills.
Providing information to teachers to assist in creation of student IEP.
Supporting students in the use of assistive technology.
Delivering appropriate life skills and routine activities of daily living and the
promotion of independence, self-advocacy and self-reliance.
Guiding, preparing, and assisting students completing work (co-op) placements,
and other experiential learning, as required.
Teaching personal hygiene, toilet training, washroom routines.
Collecting and recording data on assigned students as directed by the principal,
documenting and correlating statistical observations.
Under the direction of the principal, comm