Complex Care Itinerant Educational Assistant System Support (100%) - Regular (External/Casual)

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 41,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to a vehicle

Valid Driver’s License

Job summary

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is seeking a 100% regular Educational Assistant to join the Complex Care Itinerant Educational Assistant System Support team. The role involves direct support to students across the district, coaching school staff, and implementing behavioural strategies under the Complex Care Team.

Travel between schools is required. Applicants should have a Child and Youth Worker or equivalent diploma and experience with autism/mental health needs; valid driver’s

Qualifications

• Child and Youth Worker diploma, DSW diploma, or equivalent combination of skills, education and experience required.
• Experience working with children with autism and other exceptionalities.
• 5 years of supporting student mental health and well-being; Behaviour Management Systems/ABA-related certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to students across the district under the Complex Care Team.
• Coach and model for school staff; build staff capacity in classrooms.
• Travel between schools as required.
• Collaborate with school and central teams to implement student plans.

Skills

Coaching and modelling

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Child and Youth Worker diploma / DSW diploma

Job description

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking creative, dynamic, committed educational leaders

to join the following initiative:

Complex Care Itinerant Educational Assistant System Support

100% Regular (10 month work year)

$29.54-$36.70

Under the direction of the Program Manager of Educational Assistants, Learning Support, the Complex Care Team Itinerant Educational Assistant (IEA) provides direct support to students supported by the Complex Care Team across the district. Guided by the Complex Care Behavioural Analyst, the IEA enhances student success by implementing strategies directly with students, coaching and modeling for classroom staff, and building capacity within school teams.

Key responsibilities include working with the School Team and Central Team to support a plan for a specific student and to provide coaching and modelling to the school staff. Experience in Autism/Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health and proficiency in behaviour management systems (BMS) are essential assets. Staff are expected to travel between schools.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Child and Youth Worker diploma, DSW diploma, or equivalent combination of skills, education and experience required.
• Experience working with children with a variety of exceptionalities and settings, including autism is required.
• Experience (5 years) supporting student mental health and well-being, Autism/DD, Early Learning, Behaviour Management Systems certification, Applied Behaviour Analysis preferred, Collaborative Problem Solving preferred, First Aid, CPR (current), Suicide Prevention Training preferred, vehicle required

KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Coaching and modeling skills to build staff capacity
• Works in collaboration with the school Multi-Disciplinary team and Central Teams
• Developing and presenting professional learning resources and workshops
• Excellent communication skills, ability to interact collaboratively with school staff, administrators, families and community agencies required

Additional Comments : Access to a vehicle and a valid Driver’s License is required to cover a wide geographic area

Who can apply:

In accordance with the Student Support Personnel's Collective Agreement, O.S.S.T.F. District 25, and further to Articles 23.04 and 23:07 qualified regular part‑time employees are eligible to increase their status and apply to part‑time term vacancies if it does not interfere with their regular assignment, subject to Article 13:03; (i.e. 30 minutes between assignments or travel time, whichever is greater, without impact on current part‑time hours of work). Regular full‑time employees are not eligible to apply for term vacancies

NOTE: As per the SSP Collective Agreement, Casual EAs currently in terms for the 2025/2026 school year that ends June 26, 2026 are not eligible to apply unless to increase status.

Salary:

Effective September 1, 2025, new regular and full year term Educational Assistants who are hired with at least four (4) years of related experience, as determined by the Employer, shall be placed at Step 4 of the salary grid.

This provision has no retroactive effect.

OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

EDUCATING FOR SUCCESS - BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES TOGETHER