Occasional Educational Assistant

**Occasional Educational Assistant**

**Hourly Rate**: $27.85/hour plus 4% vacation pay

**Location**: Halton Region (Halton Hills, Burlington, Georgetown, Milton, Oakville)

**Start Date**:Immediately

**Work Schedule**: 10 months/year, as required

**Benefits of working as a supply EA?**
- Rewarding Work**:Our Supply Educational Assistants work directly with our students, supporting them in their learning.
- Variety of Work**:Our EAs have the opportunity to work at a variety of schools in a variety of locations throughout the Halton Region. Supply EAs work with children across all grades (JK to Grade 12) and they provide support to students with a wide range of exceptionalities.
- Flexible Work**:Supply EAs work a flexible work schedule
- Summers Off: Our Supply EAs enjoy their summers off

**Position Description**

Educational Assistants use their skills and knowledge to support student learning and help students access educational programs, and promote a level of independence appropriate for all students, while in compliance with relevant education and employment-related legislation, standards, regulations and policies, health and safety legislation and regulations, and HDSB policies. Flexibility, patience, compassion and the ability to work as effective team players are core skills. EAs are highly adaptable to the changing environment including but not limited to assignment changes related to students, schedules and expectations.

EAs support the teacher in meeting the needs of specific students and/or program needs within the school. Responsibilities may include: assisting students with lessons, assisting students with special needs, including those with a wide range of cognitive, emotional, and/or physical abilities, including mobility, communication and personal hygiene inclusive of toileting and diapering.

**Position Requirements**:

- Community College Diploma in Educational Support, Educational Assistant, or related field of study.
- Six (6) months related experience and/or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- One (1) or more years experience with children with a variety of physical and intellectual, behavioural or other learning disabilities is an asset.
- Availability and commitment to work a minimum of 20 assignments per school year

Offers of employment are conditional on the provision of a Criminal Background Check with Vulnerable Sector Screening (dated within six months).

**Applicant Self Identification Questions**:
As part of the recruitment and selection function, the HDSB will collect voluntary self identification data from applicants in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, HDSB’s Teacher Hiring Practices Administrative Procedure, HDSB’s Employment Equity Policy and Ontario’s Anti Racism Data Standards:
Personal information on this form is collected under the authority of the Anti-Racism Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c. 15, in compliance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.56. In accordance with HDSB’s Employment Equity Policy, personal information collected on this form will aim to achieve an inclusive, diverse and representative workforce. It works to intentionally identify and remove barriers for equity-deserving communities at each stage of the hiring process. Encouraging diversity of the workforce in the school board is vital because the workforce should be reflective and representative of the community.

Although hiring policies must adhere to the qualification requirements set out in applicable Regulations (eg. Regulation 298, “Operation of Schools - General”) and any applicable collective agreement provisions, the Board recognizes the importance of the following when developing its selection and evaluation criteria:
valuing applicants’ additional experience, lived experience, skills, backgrounds and perspectives; and

granting first consideration, where the skills, ability, and qualifications of the applicants are relatively equal, to applicants who self-identify as members of historically under-represented communities.

We encourage you to respond to our voluntary applicant self-identification questions. This data will inform our understanding of the diversity of our applicant pool as well as the progress of applicants throughout the hiring process. This data will inform our goals, strategies and actions and our progress towards creating and sustaining an inclusive and equitable workforce. Any information that you provide in response to these questions will be referred to during the hiring process for this position, and will be shared with the hiring manager and/or committee members responsible for the hiring process.

The section includes questions from Ontario’s Anti-Racism Data Standards (Standards, 2017). The Standards were established to help identify and monitor systemic racism and racial disparities within the public sector. The Standards establish consistent, effective practices for produc