Christine Meikle School offers highly specialized programming for students with complex medical, cognitive and behavioural challenges. This position will involve supporting students whose primary learning needs are safety, regulation and communication. Flexibility, creativity, collaboration, patience and consistency are essential.
This is a physically demanding position. Responsibilities may include:
- Heavy lifting, pushing and pulling
- Repetitive physical motions
- Physical escorts or other behavioural interventions with large, high school aged students who exhibit severe externalizing behaviours
Knowledge and skills related to the use of augmented communication, strategies for supporting students with autism spectrum disorders, and training with the Mandt system are assets.
All staff are expected to participate in swimming with students.
Students at Christine Meikle School have complex learning, medical, and emotional needs. Students require medical procedures administered by a Licensed Practical Nurse or they have a high frequency of demonstrating behaviours that are harmful to themselves or to others.
The position may require the candidate to support students with:
- Multiple disabilities
- Have severe to profound delays in both expressive and receptive language
- Have severe to profound delays in fine and gross motor skills
- Require extensive personal care
- Require supervision and support in warm water therapy pool
Class size and staffing are carefully evaluated on an ongoing basis based on unique learner needs and class complexity.
This position is in support of Division III and IV assisting students with speech and language delay, sensory processing, autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, ADD, ADHD, FAS, ODD, and OCD. Students in this program have complex diagnostic profiles including physical, medical, cognitive, behavioural, communication, learning and social/emotional needs. The successful candidate will need to be flexible in their ability to work in all areas of our school.
Students may demonstrate challenging behaviours:
- Aggression towards self & others (hitting, biting, self biting)
- Destructive behaviour (throwing, breaking)
- Disruptive behaviour (crying, screaming)
- Unsafe behaviour (running, limited awareness of surroundings and personal safety, escape/avoidance, general defiance and tantrums.)
This position will include working with; wheelchairs, walkers, mobility aides and speech devices. The position will require the candidate to support students in:
- Supervision and support with toileting routines
- Supervision and support when eating
- Supervision and support with dressing (putting on coat, boots, etc.)
- The ability to lift up to 50lbs
The successful applicant will be required to complete a The MANDT System course if they do not already have The MANDT System certification.
