- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B;
- Previous experience working with children who have exceptionalities
Requirements
- Support students growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
- Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team
- Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
- Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
- Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
- Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
- Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
- Work and play at students physical level of their activities
- Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
- Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- Medical Procedures such as Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting, or diabetic monitoring may be required
- Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
- Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
- Able to work with students with emotional, behavioural or other disabilities
- Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
- Physical ability to lift and move students
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional, behavioural or other disabilities
The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.
Job Types: Casual
Pay: $22.72-$23.53 per hour
Expected hours: 12.5 31.25 per week
Benefits
- Employee assistance program
- In office parking
- Wellness program
Schedule
- Monday to Friday
Education
- AEC / DEP or Skilled Trade Certificate (preferred)