Description
25-46 April 3, 2025
Competition Number Date of Distribution
Electronic Applications must be submitted through Make a Future and include a cover letter and resume by 12:00 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2025.
Effective: April 16, 2025
Description: Child and Youth Care Worker
Location: Leary Integrated Arts and Technology Elementary School
Hourly Rate: $32.93
Shift (subject to change): 8:00 a.m. to 14:38 p.m.
Hours per Day/Week: 6 hours per day / 30 hours per week - Plus 8 minutes extra per day due to LOU
Months per Year: 10
Deadline Date: April 10, 2025
Qualifications, experience, training as per class specification. For further information, contact Brad Driscoll, Principal or Shelley Burke, Vice-Principal of Leary Integrated Arts and Technology Elementary School.
Please Note: Interested staff members should apply through Make A Future at and include an updated resume stating experience, qualifications, and at least two current professional references, relating to the class specification.
CHILD AND YOUTH CARE WORKER
Division: 5 (Education Assistant)
Reports to: Assistant Superintendent.
Daily Assignment Supervision: District Counsellor
Job Summary
Upon assignment by the District Counsellor, a Child and Youth Care Worker provides assistance to teachers, severe behavioural students and parents. He/she works collaboratively with other employees, parents, students and community partners.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assists in developing specific strategies for students to achieve acceptable personal/social behaviour patterns.
- Assists with planning, implementing and monitoring behaviour management programs including observation, record keeping, follow-up, and reinforcement.
- Participates in meetings and consults with student support services, classroom teachers, School Based Team, parents and other agencies.
- Works with students on a one to one or small group basis to reinforce targeted behaviour goals as indicated in the student behaviour plan (IEP).
- May assist with planning and implementing family, group and individual counselling programs.
- Performs other related or emergent duties, as determined by the District Counsellor.
- Provides guidance, encouragement and support to students in the development of their social skills and responsible behaviour.
- Organizes recreational programs including arranging transportation.
- Organizes and supervises programs such as foods, workshop, physical education and crafts.
Equipment Used
Photocopier, telephone, computer and other classroom related equipment.
Required Knowledge, Ability, Skills
- Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences or equivalent.
- Over one years' experience working with children with behaviour and/or emotional disorders.
- A valid B.C. Class 5 driver's licence.
- Ability to extend and model patience, care, tolerance and understanding.
- Ability to apply behaviour management strategies to a given situation.
- Ability to respond to violent behaviour.
- Ability to intervene in crisis situations.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to perform individually and as part of a team.
- Ability to use courtesy and tact when dealing with the public, parents, staff and students since contacts are a major element of the job requiring considerable communication and human relations skills for such purpose as influencing, persuading, motivating, or negotiating with others, and in dealing with highly sensitive issues.
- Ability to plan and schedule work and organize workload effectively.
July 1, 1994
District Behaviour Facilitator
Revised: October 26, 2006
District Behaviour Facilitator
Revised: June 1, 2008
Revised: April 29, 2014
Child & Youth Care Worker
