Child Development Lab Assistant - TERM

WSD is one of Manitoba’s largest employers with over 6,000 full and part-time employees in 83 locations including 78 schools, two administrative buildings, a training centre , a facilities maintenance office, and a school bus depot.

At WSD, every employee plays a vital role in helping students thrive. Together, we are guided by a shared purpose of creating learning environments rooted in equity, inclusion, and belonging. Serving nearly 32,000 students from diverse communities across Winnipeg, WSD is driven by the values of joy, love, and rigour .

6.0 Hours per day

This program provides adolescent parents the opportunity to gain their high school credits and learn parenting skills while attending school with their infants or toddlers.

Under the supervision and direction of the Principal and/or designate, the Child Development Lab Assistant is responsible for providing instruction and general assistance to: the adolescent parents and their infants in the Child Development Lab; the students of the Family Studies and Food and Nutrition courses; the Development Lab teachers as required; and other various duties.

• provides reinforcement of appropriate parenting skills to adolescent parents, including demonstrating and modeling with activities such as feeding and preparing food, snacks and bottles; changing diapers and potty training, movement and motor skills, speech development, swaddling and calming children
• facilitating and assisting with adolescent parenting workshops and student conferences on various
• topics and demonstrating a variety of skills
• observes and records information regarding infants/toddlers and care by parents
• provides physical care of infants/toddlers while parents are in classes
• maintains the infant/toddler lab i.e. preparing snacks, laundry, sanitizing and clean-up of toys, etc.
• planning a daily agenda of activities
• diapering in accordance to the needs of the child
• supervision of student helpers
• administering first aid when necessary
• other duties when required

• certificate in a specialty post-secondary program such as the Early Childhood Educator Program (ECE II)
• minimum 2 years experience in a childcare setting
• valid First Aid and CPR certificate
• valid Food Handler Certificate

Employment is subject to a clear Child Abuse Registry check and Police Information Check

Winnipeg School Division has an Employment Equity policy which strives toward a fair representation of women, Indigenous peoples, persons living with a disability and minorities at all levels within the organization.