Casual Assistant Caretaker

$17.20 per hour for 60 day probationary period

$21.44 per hour following completion of 60 day probationary period

As a Casual Assistant Caretaker, you will work on call in short-term and long-term assignments at multiple schools throughout the diverse communities of Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board including Hamilton Mountain, Hamilton Downtown, Waterdown, Flamborough, Dundas, Ancaster, Mount Hope, Binbrook, Stoney Creek and Winona. 

You will contribute to the well-being of students and staff by ensuring our schools and administrative offices are clean, well maintained, and pleasant places to learn and work.  Working in a team environment, you will ensure the cleanliness and security of the building and grounds.

New Casual Assistant Caretakers are provided with training and will perform the following duties:

• Dusting and sanitizing surfaces in classrooms and offices
• Wet and dry mopping of floors, polishing and scrubbing floors, operating auto scrubbers and buffers, stripping and refinishing floor surfaces
• Garbage collection and removal, inside and outside
• Snow removal, salting, and sanding as required
• Operation of mechanical equipment including vacuum cleaners, floor buffers, auto scrubbers, snow blowers, riding lawn mowers
• Assist with set-up requirements for school activities and community rentals
• Performing minor maintenance duties, eg. changing lights
• General landscaping duties including weeding, lawn cutting, and grounds clean up

The qualifications of this position are the following:

• High school diploma or Project Search Graduate or equivalent
• Basic English verbal and written communication skills
• Basic computer skills
• Reliable team player with a customer service attitude
• Safety conscious
• Previous commercial/industrial cleaning experience is an asset
• Satisfactory vulnerable sector records check will be required before beginning this position

A condition of employment requires that you pass the Board’s physical testing component. Additional information will be provided during the interview process.  

Interviews will occur on February 6th and 8th, 2023. Onboarding will occur the week of March 27th, 2023.

Employment Equity Statement

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) is committed to building inclusive learning and working environments where students see themselves reflected in the curriculum, staff population, physical surroundings and the broader community.

HWDSB’s mission is to empower students to learn and grow to their full potential in a diverse world. Guided by this mission, HWDSB strives to build a workforce that embodies the values of human rights, equity, diversity and inclusion, while reflecting and welcoming the diverse and distinct identities, experiences and needs of our students and our communities.

HWDSB seeks qualified candidates who share our commitment to equity and inclusion, and who will contribute to the vision of creating inclusive and equitable outcomes. HWDSB especially invites and welcomes applications from:

• Indigenous Peoples (e.g. First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples;)

• Members of groups that commonly experience discrimination due to race, ancestry, colour, religion and/or spiritual beliefs, or place of origin; (e.g. Black and racialized communities, immigrant communities, etc.)

• Persons with visible and/or invisible (physical and/or mental) disabilities;

• Persons who identify as women; and

• Persons of marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. (i.e. Two-spirit and LGBTQIA+)

As part of HWDSB’s commitment to employment equity and removing barriers to groups that have faced and continue to face barriers in employment, we invite all applicants to complete a voluntary question(s) that collects identity-based information. The voluntary question(s) is on the Apply to Education application page for this position.

HWDSB is committed to providing accommodation throughout the recruitment and selection process, based on any human rights protected grounds. If you require accommodation, please notify us in advance and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Land Acknowledgement

HWDSB is located on ancestral Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Confederacy land as determined by the Dish with One Spoon treaty. The Dish with One Spoon wampum belt represents the treaty relationship between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Anishinaabe with respect to sharing the land and resources thereon. The intent of this agreement is for all nations sharing this territory to do so responsibly, respectfully and sustainably in perpetuity. We respect the longstanding relationships with the local Indigenous communities, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Six Nations of the Grand River.

Applicant Self-Identification Form

The information collected on this form is used to monitor HWDSB’s progress toward our equity goals including our commitment to diversity in HWDSB recruitment and hiring practices.

We are committed to the security and confidentiality of information under our control, and to the protection of privacy with respect to personal and confidential information that is collected, used, disclosed and retained in the system (Policy 1.6 - Privacy). Information on this form is collected pursuant to Ontario’s Education Equity Action Plan (Ministry of Education) and in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). Access to this form is restricted to specific individuals in Human Resources. The Research and Analytics Department will use aggregate data from all the forms (not individual data) for internal reporting. Their access and use of the data is governed by MFIPPA and ethical research practices. Applicant Self-Identification Forms will be maintained in the Human Resources job competition file and securely destroyed 1 year after the job posting for candidates not selected for an interview and 6 years after the job posting for candidates interviewed, in accordance with general records retention principles.

If you prefer not to answer any of the questions, you can select “prefer not to answer”. This in no way affects your application or the applicant selection process. If you have questions or concerns about this form please contact recruitment@hwdsb.on.ca.