D'Arcy McGee​/Symmes Jr. High School- Attendant Handicapped Students, Temporary, Special Project

Position: D'Arcy McGee/Symmes Jr. High School- Attendant for Handicapped Students, Temporary, Special Project/
Nature of Special Project:
This employee would be responsible for supporting one student in a wheelchair that is in the Work Oriented Training Path (OTP). The Contract will end once the student graduates.

We, the Western Quebec School Board, acknowledge that the lands upon which we live, learn, and work are the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe peoples. We thank them for sharing these lands and commit, as an organization, as educators and as individuals, to an ongoing relationship that recognizes and respects the lands, traditions, and culture of the Anishinaabe people.

The Western Quebec School Board is committed to building an educational community with the common purpose to realize the potential of all our students by cultivating a strong corps of support, professional, teaching, and administrative excellence. We, therefore, encourage applications from Indigenous people, as well as from other racialized people groups, persons living with a disability, people of religious faith, and gender minorities.

As an organization, we strive to hire individuals who reflect the communities we serve, and who embody and practice a love of life-long learning, teamwork, and the highest professional ethics. Our efforts to achieve a diverse workforce that contributes to a culturally safe working environment include establishing proactive employment practices to address systemic barriers and removing obstacles to hiring and retaining qualified people.

Nature of the work
The principal and customary work of an employee in this class of employment consists in assisting handicapped students in participating in activities related to their schooling. Assists a student in moving from one location to another, ensures student well-being, hygiene and safety according to the instructions received in keeping with the individualized education plan.

Characteristic Functions
The employee in this class of employment assists the student in moving from one location to another; pushes a student in a wheelchair, helps the student change positions and, if necessary, to transfer to another chair. For the student's added comfort, will be responsible to help the student drink and eat during snacks and meals and, if necessary, reheats foods; helps student get dressed and undressed.

Ensures the student's personal hygiene; helps the student wash; helps in the washroom; if necessary, changes diapers and washes the student. Ensures the student's safety from the time the student gets off the transportation vehicle to the student gets on.

Assists teachers in conveying to students basic concepts regarding cleanliness, dressing, drinking and eating.

Helps students to use or, handles for them, the materials and objects necessary for preparing and carrying out pedagogical and student activities.

May be required to accompany a student to physiotherapy, occupational therapy or body and muscle relaxation sessions.

Records observations concerning a student's needs and behaviour and may be required to inform teachers, parents and other designated staff and give advice on the measures specified in the individualized education plan.

Supervises students during recess, meal periods, naptime and recreation time and accompanies them to the pool.

Helps the students to understand and respect school rules.

If necessary, administers medication according to medical requirements and the school policy in effect and to the parents' instructions; administers first aid.

Takes the necessary measures to support a student in calming down when dysregulated, while ensuring their own safety and that of others.

Washes and, if necessary, disinfects articles of clothing, dinnerware, tables, orthotic devices and material used for student activities.

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