Posted 16 days ago
Education Assistant
@ School District #79 (Cowichan Valley)
British Columbia
Overview
School District #79 (Cowichan Valley) is hiring a casual on-call Education Assistant to support students with diverse learning needs in the classroom. The work covers academic and social/emotional skill development, personal care tasks, and medication assistance. The posting states an hourly wage of $33.24 as of July 1, 2024, and that the position is unionized under CUPE.
Pay:
$33.24 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate inclusion of students with disabilities and diverse abilities
- Reinforce learning activities guided by IEPs
- Support communication and social/emotional skills
- Assist with feeding, hygiene, toileting and physical needs
- Assist with medication administration excluding seizure and diabetes medication
Requirements summary:
- Completed college or university education assistant or community support worker program (one academic year plus practicum)
- Physical capability to perform job duties
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Source and dates
Job-board feed · applytoeducation
- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-21
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-21
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | School |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Education | College diploma (required) |
| Fields of study | education assistant, community support work |
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School District #79 (Cowichan Valley)
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 18 |
CASUAL ON-CALL EDUCATION ASSISTANT
Provide support for the inclusion of students with diverse learning needs by assisting with academic and/or social/emotional skill development in the learning environment.
DUTIES:
- Under the direction of a classroom teacher or administrator, facilitates the inclusion of students with disabilities and diverse abilities by encouraging and supporting them to become independent learners and members of the classroom, school, and community.
- Reviews and reinforces learning activities guided by Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and learning strategies developed by the school-based team to help students master concepts and skills.
- Supports students with learning communication skills and social/emotional strategies.
- Supports students' use of educational technology and/or various assistive communication modalities.
- Reinforces classroom expectations during brief absences of the teacher.
- Follows a student's plan(s) in consultation with the teacher or administrator when a student is asked to leave the classroom to calm, self-regulate and re-engage a student with learning.
- Assists student(s) with administering medication (excluding seizure and diabetes medication).
- Performs assigned duties during fire/earthquake/lockdown drills and other emergent situations.
- Assists students' learning in the areas of feeding, dressing, undressing, hygiene, toileting, washing, cleaning and guiding students with other physical requirements to support
- Successful completion of a college or university recognized program of related studies (education assistant/community support worker) of 1 academic year plus a practicum.
- Capability to physically perform the job duties
Please submit aor resume that includes post secondary transcripts, a cover letterindicating how you believe you meet our qualifications, and three work references with permission to contact. Please submit electronic applications (preferably as one PDF) to:
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