Casual Educational Assistant

Overview

$23.26 per hour. As a Casual Educational Assistant, you will work on call in short-term and long-term assignments at multiple schools throughout the diverse communities of Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board including Hamilton Mountain, Hamilton Downtown, Waterdown, Flamborough, Dundas, Ancaster, Mount Hope, Binbrook, Stoney Creek and Winona.

As a Member Of a Multidisciplinary Team Of Professionals, you will provide a range of supportive interventions for students who exhibit self-regulation, social, emotional, physical, and/or medical needs. This could include, but is not limited to:

• Support students with diverse needs such as physical, intellectual, behavioural, learning disabilities, and/or students with multiple disabilities.
• Support and collaborate with the teacher to meet the needs of students, primarily those with special needs in regular and special education classes.
• Assist on a regular basis with hygiene, which could include support with toileting, diapering, and dressing.
• Lift and reposition students (as trained by physical/occupational therapists).
• Follow the guidelines of student accommodation and support plans.
• Participate in all legislative professional development as well as all other PD identified by HWDSB.

All new hires will be invited to participate in our NEW Educational Assistant onboarding program that includes BMS training, essential skills training, Easy Connect training, and three days of job shadowing.

To perform the duties of the role, we are looking for the following qualifications, experience and skills:

• Diploma as an Educational Assistant, Child and Youth Worker, Developmental Services Worker, or Social Service Worker. Equivalent and/or similar volunteer, work, and lived experience will be taken into consideration.
• Training in one or more of the following areas:
  Behaviour Management Systems (BMS)/Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), assistive technology, sign language, First Aid and CPR.
• Cultural and ability sensitivity, related experience supporting individuals with special needs.
• The ability to perform physical tasks including dressing, feeding, lifting/re-positioning, transfers, toileting, and diapering.
• The ability to start work immediately.

We encourage using your cover letter as an opportunity to explain how your work, volunteer, and/or lived experience supporting individuals with special needs translates to this role. Be advised that Human Resources may conduct audits of resumes of internal/external applicants to ensure/validate information provided is consistent and trustworthy. Falsification of information provided at any time throughout the recruitment process may be grounds for disqualification, and for internal applicants, subject to discipline, up to and including termination.

Please apply directly on HWDSB Apply to Education. Mail-in applications will not be processed. When applying through HWDSB Apply to Education, your application package must include:

• Resume

Method of interview: In-person interviews at 20 Education Court.
Candidates will be asked to show government-issued photo identification at the time of interview to confirm their identity. All personal details may be covered by candidate.

Posting close date: February 22, 2026 at 4pm

Tentative interview dates: Interviews are tentatively scheduled for March 3rd & 6th IN PERSON.

Employment Equity, Inclusion and Indigeneity Statement: HWDSB is committed to providing accommodation throughout the recruitment and selection process, based on any human rights protected grounds. As part of HWDSB’s commitment to employment equity, inclusion and Indigeneity and removing barriers to groups that have faced and continue to face barriers in employment, we invite all applicants to complete a voluntary questionnaire that collects identity-based information.

The voluntary questionnaire is on the Apply to Education application page for this position.

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