Job detail
High School Educational Assistant (Full-time)
Vancouver Christian School
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia
Salary
CA$29 - CA$32 / HOUR
Quick overview
- Supporting students with assessed needs through collaboration with teachers and support staff.
- Implementing individualized plans such as IEPs, Behavior Action Plans, and Health Care Plans.
- Providing personal and medical support to students.
- Supporting students in life skills and modified lessons.
- Operating specialized devices and equipment.
- Facilitating participation of students with learning differences.
- Supporting classroom activities and lessons.
- Teaching skills such as executive functioning, socio-emotional regulation, and self-advocacy.
- Participating in school community activities and spiritual life
Requirements summary
EA Certification or completion of recognized Post-Secondary Special Education Assistant program. Degree/Diploma in Education or Psychology or related field, or extensive relevant experience. 1000 hours ABA training and work experience or equivalent certification. Support for students with disabilities from a Christian perspective
EA Certification or recognized Post-Secondary Special Education Assistant programDegree/Diploma in Education/Psychology or related fieldExtensive experience in relevant fieldABA training and work experience or equivalent certificationorganizational skillscollaborationcommunicationconfidentialitybehavior supportclassroom supportethical behavioursupporting students with learning needslife skills instructionuse of specialized devices and technologiesteaching executive functioning and socio-emotional skillsparticipation in Christian community
Job description
- <p><strong>High School Educational Assistant (Full-time)</strong></p> Who We Are<div>Vancouver Christian School is a diverse K-12 independent school in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- With a vibrant and close-knit community of 945 students, VCS has been shaping lives through Christ-centred education for over 75 years.
- We are committed to nurturing students’ academic, social, spiritual, and emotional growth, equipping them to live lives of transformation and service.</div><div><br></br></div>Join our team<div>VCS is accepting applications for an educational assistant working with high school students.
- A full-time high school educational assistant works from 8:15 am - 4:15 pm Monday to Friday.
- The Educational Assistant is supervised by the High School Inclusive Education Coordinator and works with teachers and staff to support student learning.</div><div><br></br></div><div>As a High School Educational Assistant, key responsibilities include:</div><ul><li>Working in collaboration with the teacher and Educational Support Services team with their assigned student(s) with their assessed needs from a strength-based approach</li><li>Collaborating with teachers, counsellors, ESS team members, and other support personnel to serve the needs of the student - advocating for an inclusive approach to their educational journey</li><li>Demonstrating effective verbal, non-verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, and understanding confidentiality </li><li>Demonstrating organizational skills, ethical behaviour, and accountability as an educational assistant working in a school environment</li><li>Being familiar with students’ specific learning needs and preferences, which can help build positive relationships with students, which increases the effectiveness of student learning support</li><li>Assisting students who require ongoing, long-term support through plans developed specifically for them by the School Based Team.
- This is done under the direction of teachers and other professional staff.
- EAs may be called upon to work together with members of an individual student’s SBT. </li><li>Supporting specific plans that work towards outcomes that are specified to their learning needs: eg.
- IEPs (individualized education plans); Behaviour Action Plans; Emergency Response Plans; Individualized Health Care Plans. </li><li>Providing personal care or medical support to students as required and permitted by regulations and school policy</li></ul><div><br></br></div><div>Demonstrating capability in supporting students, which may include non-verbal or minimally verbal students, in a life skills program with modified lessons, which include:</div><ul><li>teaching life skills such as taking public transportation, traffic safety, meal preparation, personal care, knowledge of the community services, social skills & communication, emotional self-regulation </li><li>planning relevant activities/project such as our gardening project, the pop-up cafe/shop project, and implementing modified lessons for literacy, math, PHE, music, art, foods, science and other lessons in collaboration with the life skills teacher; creating visual schedules for the student</li><li>applying recommendations and tools prepared by paraprofessionals such as the Speech Language Pathologist (eg. applying AAC device), Occupational Therapist (eg. dressing/undressing skills, toileting, feeding, traffic safety), Physiotherapist (eg. specific gross motor and fine motor exercises), and Behavioural Consultants (eg.
- ABA practices) </li><li>Operating and maintaining specialized devices, equipment and technologies </li></ul><div><br></br></div><div>Working with teachers to facilitate the participation of all students with learning differences in classroom activities.
- Keeping students engaged in a range of activities that take place in the learning environment to encourage and support their intellectual, emotional, academic, social development </div><ul><li>Providing support to the student individually or in small groups in the classroom and/or outside the classroom in the least intrusive environment for students and peers</li><li>Assisting classroom activities and lessons by:</li><li>keeping lines of communication open with members of the school staff by sharing information, giving & receiving feedback</li><li>evaluating & maintaining records of student progress through observation notes and ABA assessment practices for goal-setting</li><li>assembling, organizing and constructing support materials as directed by the teacher while attending to one or more students</li><li>assisting students by explaining, demonstrating and modeling the skills and attitudes necessary to encourage and support learning as facilitated by the teacher </li><li>teaching executive functioning skills, socio-emotional regulation, study skills, self-advocacy and other skills to support the student’s educational journey</li><li>Participating in the Christian community and life of the school (eg. leading a pastoral care group, leading staff devotions, mentoring students in their spiritual journey)</li></ul><div><br></br></div>Salary range$28.70 - $31.67 per hour (dependent on education, qualifications, and experience)<div><br></br></div>Ideal Qualifications<ul><li>VCS endeavours to hire Educational Assistants who will support the unique abilities and disabilities of students from a Christian perspective.
- It is the expectation that Educational Assistants at VCS will be grounded in their Christian faith and committed to their own professional and spiritual growth through continuous learning and development.</li><li>EA Certification preferred OR a Completion of a recognized Post-Secondary Special Education Assistant program</li><li>and/or a Degree/Diploma in a related field (Education/Psychology degree)</li><li>and/or extensive experience in an equivalent field (e.g., Child & Youth Worker, ECE certificate (special needs designation course recommended), SLP, OT, nursing), as determined by the school</li><li>and/or 1,000 hours home team/Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) training and work experience documented by a Professional Consultant</li><li>and/or completion of a certificate/diploma whose primary focus is on empirically supported approaches to supporting children with ASD or an equivalent certification</li></ul><div><br></br></div><div>Interested parties can apply through <a></a></div><div>While we appreciate your interest in Vancouver Christian School, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.</div><div><br></br></div>
