Casual Educational Assistants - Multiple Locations - #4130

Chinook School Division; Swift Current; On-site; CAD 26,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Municipal Employees' Pension Plan

Positive work environment

Job summary

The Chinook School Division is accepting applications for Casual Educational Assistants to support students across various schools in the division. The role involves assisting with instructional activities, supporting individuals and groups, and helping students with a range of needs within the classroom and daily routines.

Successful candidates will be capable of working with diverse learners, demonstrate teamwork and adaptability, and commit to inclusion and reconciliation principles as

Qualifications

• Ability and experience in working with children.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills, and an ability to work in a team environment.
• A positive and flexible attitude to change.
• Commitment to truth and reconciliation.
• Commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Supervise students in the classroom, play, lunch or rest area and during recreational activities on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, supervise, support and facilitate learning activities.
• Assist in various life skill activities.
• Assist designated disabled students in the development of gross and fine motor abilities and basic life skills by demonstration, physical assistance and manipulation.
• Exercise judgment in modifying student behavior by restraining, directing, disciplining and rewarding students within pre-established guidelines.
• Based on the needs of individual students, provide designated disabled students with assistance in dressing, eating, toileting and transportation.
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, assist assigned students with reading, speech, assignments, tests and comprehension of presented curriculum, based on the student's Personal Program Plan.
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, assist students who are deaf by serving as a facilitator of communication between the student and others including teachers, other service providers and peers within the educational environment.
• Promote the vision, mission, principles and goals of the Chinook School Division.
• Perform such other duties and tasks as may be required due to the specialized nature of a student's particular education program.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Adaptability

Diversity & inclusion

Truth & reconciliation

Job description

Job Posting

Casual Educational Assistants

Competition #4130

CUPE ($19.83/hour):

Burstall, Leader, Sidney Street, Fox Valley

Non-Union ($20.27/hour):

Waldeck, Ecole Centennial, Success, Ruskin Hutterian, O.M. Irwin, Swift Current Comprehensive, Creston Bench Hutterian, Garden Plane Hutterian, Gull Lake, Consul, Cabri

SEIU ($20.16/hour):

Bone Creek Hutterian, Shaunavon Public

The Chinook School Division is proud to serve nearly 6,000 students in 60 schools, with over 1,000 collegial and student-centered teachers and support staff. We are a vibrant and progressive school division located within Saskatchewan's great Southwest. Our Division is committed to our guiding principles; Communication, Shared Responsibility, Positive Relationships and Ongoing Monitoring and Improvement. The Division affirms the right of all students and staff to be contributing members of a school community that is safe, caring and respectful of all people.

Chinook is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our schools and workplace as indicated in AP 176. Successful candidates are expected to:

• understand the importance of supporting a welcoming environment;
• present a positive attitude towards inclusion and diversity;
• identify opportunities to support inclusion and diversity and;
• take meaningful action.

General Description:

A team member who, in cooperation with a designated teacher, is responsible to the principal for assisting with the educational program of selected students in order to improve the students' instructional learning opportunities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise student in the classroom, play, lunch or rest area and during recreational activities on a one-to-one or group basis
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, supervise, support and facilitate learning activities
• Assist in various life skill activities
• Assist designated disabled students in the development of gross and fine motor abilities and basic life skills by demonstration, physical assistance and manipulation
• Exercise judgment in modifying student behavior by restraining, directing, disciplining and rewarding students within pre-established guidelines.
• Based on the needs of individual students, provide designated disabled students with assistance in dressing, eating, toileting and transportation
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, assist assigned students with reading, speech, assignments, tests and comprehension of presented curriculum, based on the student's Personal Program Plan
• Under the direct supervision of a teacher, assist students who are deaf by serving as a facilitator of communication between the student and others including teachers, other service providers and peers within the educational environment
• Promote the vision, mission, principles and goals of the Chinook School Division
• Perform such other duties and tasks as may be required due to the specialized nature of a student's particular education program

Qualifications:

• Ability and experience in working with children
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills, and an ability to work in a team environment
• A positive and flexible attitude to change
• Demonstrates a commitment to truth and reconciliation
• Demonstrates a commitment to supporting diversity and inclusion

Benefits :

• Participation in the Municipal Employees' Pension Plan
• Positive work environment

Casual employees are contacted to work on an “as-needed” basis. Casual employees are important members of our Chinook team and receive competitive wages as well as pension benefits.

For more information about this position, please contact Shauna Lacher, Manager of Human Resources, by email at [e-mail].

Please note: all successful applicants must agree to a Criminal Record Check including a Vulnerable Sector Search as a condition of employment.

By virtue of the submission of the application, the applicant agrees that the Director or designate can contact previous employers for the purpose of conducting confidential reference checks whether or not the applicant has listed a reference for that employer.