Casual Educational Assistant; EA

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Job Title: Casual Educational Assistant (EA)

Job Type: This posting is for establishing a casual supply list for existing and future coverage needs (required to be available to work a minimum of three (3) days per week).

Salary: $28.04 per hour

Location: Peterborough, Northumberland, and Clarington Regions (to view the schools in these locations).

Closing Date: March 27, 2026 at 12:00PM

Interviews: Interviews will be held virtually following the posting closing date.

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board (KPR) offers a world‑class education for approximately 36,000 students in 89 schools across diverse rural and urban communities in southeastern Ontario. KPR serves the Municipalities of Clarington, Northumberland, Peterborough Counties, and the City of Quinte West/Murray Ward. The Board is situated on the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg people, serving three vibrant Indigenous communities, including Alderville First Nation, Curve Lake First Nation, and Hiawatha First Nation.

KPR acknowledges the contributions and accomplishments of all Indigenous people across Turtle Island, current and throughout history, and supports the school's priority of student achievement and the Board’s mission to educate our students to excel in learning, to succeed in life, and to enrich our communities.

• Provide identified students with support as per strategies recommended by occupational, physical, and communication therapists.
• Transfer and lift students, using appropriate and safe techniques and devices.
• Provide toileting, changing, repositioning, and dressing.
• Assist students with mobility as required.
• Assist in the operation of specialized equipment.
• Assist in the implementation of Student Safety Plans under the direction of the classroom Teacher and/or School Principal/ Vice‑Principal.
• Perform clean and intermittent catheterization.
• Perform shallow and surface suctioning.
• Provide assistance with Glucometer, Insulin Pump and other procedures related to diabetes, with training as required.
• Provide hand‑over‑hand feeding, food preparation, deploy modified feeding tools, modeling, and monitoring for choking.
• Administer routine medication needs as permitted under the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA).
• Monitor and track the health needs of the student.
• Support students by promoting the development of appropriate social, communication and behavioural skills, utilizing the strategies of Non‑Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI).
• Assist in supervision needs as required, on class trips, in the classroom, washrooms and hallways, on the yard, at lunch, during examinations, receiving and delivering students to and from transportation, in academic groups and with individuals, and on student transportation.
• Assist with student safety issues including emergency evacuation, medical emergencies.
• Participate as a member of the school collaborative team, acting as a resource to other staff members and taking part in the discussion of students' progress and needs while maintaining confidentiality.
• Provide program support by assisting teachers with the delivery of academic and social/life skills programs for both individual and groups of students by planning and implementing effective learning support strategies, including:
• Using a variety of instructional support methods, techniques and learning aids such as scribing, correcting, prompting, reading, keeping students on task, adapting language for redelivery, reinforcing concepts, lessons and skills.
• Providing information to teachers to assist in creation of student IEP.
• Supporting students in the use of assistive technology.
• Delivering appropriate life skills and routine activities of daily living and the promotion of independence, self‑advocacy and self‑reliance.
• Guiding, preparing, and assisting students completing work (co‑op) placements, and other experiential learning, as required.
• Teaching personal hygiene, toilet training, washroom routines.
• Collecting and recording data on assigned students as directed by the principal, documenting and correlating statistical observations.
• Under…