Educational Assistant

**DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES
**2755 Highway 43, Kemptville, Ontario K0G 1J0

phone: 613-258-7757 toll free: 1-800-443-4562

Posted on: October 1, 2024 at 10:00 pm

CUPE#4178 - SL2024

Position: Educational Assistant - Specialized: ABLE/Turning Points
- Long-Term Occasional

Location: Holy Trinity CSS - Cornwall

Hours of work: 17.5 hours/week

**Salary**: $26.92/hour

Effective: Immediately - June 26, 2025

Note
The duration of the assignment is determined by the needs of the children. Please refer to the attached job

description for further information.
- Qualifications
- A 2-year Community College Diploma in one of the following fields of study: Social Service Worker, Child and Youth Worker,

Behavioural Science, Developmental Service Worker or Early Childhood Education.
- One year work related experience.
- Ability to lift and re-position.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Specific skills, Behaviour Management Systems training, qualifications, or experience may be required depending on the needs

of the child.

Interested applicants may submit a cover letter and resume no later than:
Tuesday October 8, 2024 at 4:00 pm

**Indigenous peoples, racialized people, persons with disabilities, people from gender diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities, as well**

**as others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.**

**The Catholic District School Board acknowledges that our schools are located on the unceded, traditional Algonquin territory of the Anishinaabe people as**

**well as the land of the Mohawk territory of the Haudenosaunee/Rotinonhsho’n:ni people. We respect both the land and the people of this land including all**

**Indigenous people who have walked in this place.**

**process, please reach prior to the posting closing date so that appropriate arrangements can be made.**

**Susan Wilson Laurie Corrigan**

**Chair of the Board Director of Education**

A. Job Identification:
Title: Educational Assistant - ABLE/Turning Points

Immediate Supervisor: School Principal

B. Job Summary:
Support students within a specialized program based on academic, social, emotional, and physical needs, to

access the curriculum and achieve treatment goals.
- C. Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide intensive support to students and staff to de-escalate and stabilize dysregulation where there is an

imminent threat to the safety of self or others.
- Support students to promote appropriate responses and prevent future dysregulation.
- Support existing strategies, safety plans, PTRs, plans for success, and current interventions to meet student needs.
- Support specific non-academic programs, goals, and timelines to exchange unwanted behaviour and track and

record progress.
- Support the development, implementation, and modeling of intervention strategies.
- Supervise and assist students with arrival and departure routines.
- Perform duties for students such as feeding, lifting, positioning, toileting, catheterization, and diapering as

required.
- Assist in physio, occupational and speech therapy, under the direction of a Physiotherapist, Occupational

Therapist, and/or Speech & Language Pathologist.
- Assist student(s) in developing life skills.
- Participate in Board-directed professional development.
- Prepare, organize, and manage activity centers, visuals, and therapy equipment.
- Supervise student(s) throughout the school day as required.
- Assist in first aid procedures and secure further assistance where needed.
- Administer medication when required.
- Prepare student materials and supplies.
- Utilize equipment for therapy and communication: for example, standing frame, Eye Gaze device, etc.
- Utilize equipment such as: photocopier, paper cutter, laminator, computer, iPad, Whiteboard, etc.
- Assist students to learn and complete assigned activities and programs under the direction of the teacher.
- Support before and after school clubs.
- Duties as assigned by the teacher and principal, which are consistent with the above job summary.
- D. Qualifications:

- A 2-year Community College Diploma in one of the following fields of study: Social Service Worker, Child and

Youth Worker, Behavioural Science, Developmental Service Worker or Early Childhood Education.
- One year work related experience.
- Ability to lift and re-position.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Specific skills, Behaviour Management Systems training, qualifications, or experience may be required depending

on the needs of the child.