DEAFBC

Full-time (Permanent)

Location-ATBC Service Centre

Starting Salary (Step 1) $73, 252.00

Overview

The ATBC Assistive Technology Consultant provides assistive technology resources to adults with permanent disabilities in employment and educational settings throughout the Province. This position works within the ATBC Assistive Technology Consulting Team under the direction of the ATBC Learning Services Manager. The primary duties and responsibilities of the Assistive Technology Consultant involve case management, determining client needs, developing, and maintaining assistive technology action plans, and providing consultative services to a variety of agency stakeholders.

Specific Responsibilities

Case Management and Technology Action Plan Support

• Managing assigned case load to coordinate and deliver timely client service and client record management for a case load of approximately 250 cases annually.
• Determining program service eligibility to establish scope of services available to clients.
• Completing the client needs determination process through reviewing case history and assessment documentation, interviewing and consulting stakeholders, and researching industry-related resources.
• Developing and maintaining individualized technology action plans based on information gathered in the needs determination process.
• Coordinating technology action plan implementation including equipment acquisition, equipment configuration, and equipment delivery and set- up.
• Providing or coordinating on-going technical support and training to ensure clients are able to perform the solution instructions in their technology action plans.
• Writing technology action plan reports as well as documenting timely case progress reports and notes.
• Processing case service closure procedures which may include coordinating return of equipment on loan as well as updating case closure records.
• Traveling to client locations as needed when remote or ATBC Service Centre site visit is not possible.

Professional Development and Leadership

• Keeping up to date with developments relating to assistive technologies used or potentially used by persons with disabilities in the post-secondary educational environment.
• Providing content expertise to post-secondary institution and Ministry Staff relating to assistive technology services and solutions available to students with permanent disabilities.
• Responding to ATBC agency service-related inquiries from the general public.
• Delivering and participating in-service workshops, presentations, and qualification training relating to the services and resources provided through ATBC.
• providing other related duties as required.

Reporting Relationships

Reports to: ATBC Learning Services Manager

Key Relationships: ATBC consulting team, ATBC technical and support staff, Post-secondary Students, Post-secondary Institution Disability Services Coordinators, Technology and Services Vendors, Student Aid BC Officers, Post-secondary Provincial Resource Program partners

Please see the job description for a detailed list of duties and responsibilities.

Your application portfolio must include the following documents:

• Cover Letter
• Resume
• Academic Transcripts
• 3 Professional References ** We do not accept friends or teaching colleagues as references **

To submit your application, please visit Make a Future at: https://bit.ly/3RLYbVR.

Due to the confidentiality of the interview process and the high volume of applications, we do not provide feedback, notify unsuccessful applicants, or respond to inquiries regarding the status of an application.

We will contact applicants directly if we are interested in moving forward or if an application requires additional information.

The District welcomes qualified applicants who value equity and diversity as essential to excellence. The district makeup of the VSB strives to support all voices and fosters a community where all members feel a sense of belonging, security, and acceptance. The VSB community is for everyone, and you may wish to share some lived experiences that demonstrate your connections to our diverse student community.

Sign Language Instructor for UBC club (paid):Hello! We are looking for an instructor to teach weekly introductory/basic sign language lessons in-person at the UBC Vancouver campus.

We plan on having 1 lesson a week, and each session will be an hour long. No previous teaching experience necessary! Lessons will be held in the evenings on weekdays (around 6~7pm), at a set time/day of the week that works best for the instructor. 
Honorarium: $25 per class (1 hour each)
about us:  ‘AMS Signs @ UBC’ is a student-run club that aims to provide an informal and safe space for UBC students to learn and practice sign language while emphasizing the needs of the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing community.

If you are interested in this position, or have any questions, please contact us at signs.ubc@gmail.com. Thank you very much!

Additional details:Location: AMS Student Nest Earliest start date: last week of September End date: last week of November (dates for Jan-April have not be released yet)

Provincial Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services (PDHHS) is seeking ASL instructors to provide ASL instruction to children, youth and families in BC. The ASL instructor contract opportunity is now available on BC Bid to apply within.

 https://new.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/page.aspx/en/bpm/process_manage_extranet/6307

Applications are being accepted for the position of:

CASUAL ON-CALL EDUCATIONAL INTERPRETER

Under the general supervision of the Principal or Delegate, provides interpreting for deaf and hard of hearing students, classmates and educational staff in order to support students in their school activities and their Individual Education Plans.

DUTIES:

Accurately interpret/translate information from spoken English to a visual language as required by the position (American Sign Language and/or Signed English and/or Sign Assisted Speech) as well as to accurately interpret/translate the student’s visual language (ASL and/or Signed English) to spoken English while delivering the intent, meaning and register of the speaker at the level commensurate with the grade level of the student as determined by district allied professionals.

Under the direction of the classroom teacher and teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, provides language extensions to promote both receptive and expressive language skills and vocabulary reinforcement to support academic concepts.
Facilitates communication between deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students and staff by providing interpreting services in and out of the classroom, adjusting to the signing, educational and communicational levels required by the student; this may include scribing expressive and receptive ASL skills to written and spoken English and vice versa.

Interprets in educational situations such as classroom instructions, student-to-student dialogue, counselling sessions, tutorials, assemblies, parent/student meetings, field trips, and any other situation that requires communication.
Prepares, as necessary, for interpreting in an educational setting by reviewing educational material, vocabulary, concepts, sentence structure and plan for a variety of situations (e.g. non-closed-captioned videos, field trips, school assembly presentations).
Participates in educational team meeting, including the development and review of progress on the Individual Education Plan, providing insight on the success of communication strategies with an appreciation of the confidential nature of all information relating to students, parents and staff.

Addresses differences in auditory, perceptual, visual and memory abilities through augmentative communication.
Operates a personal computer and applications, scanner, FM equipment, and other augmentative communication devices for educational purposes as required.

QUALIFICIATIONS:

• Grade 12 supplemented by over 2 and up to 3 years of post-secondary education in Visual Language Skills (Signed English and/or ASL and/or Sign Supported Speech and/or Cued Speech) and Deaf Studies at Vancouver Community College or equivalent education and experience as positions require.
• Completion of an Interpreter Training Program would be an asset.
• Swimming certificate and be willing to enter the pool with student as required.
• Excellent command of the English language, spoken and written.
• Demonstrated fluency in ASL and/or Signed Exact English and/or Cued Speech and/or sign supported speech, oral Interpreting as required by the position.
• Demonstrated ability to work at the level of independence and with the degree of initiative appropriate to the position.
• An appreciation of the confidential nature of the position.
• A willingness to learn to troubleshoot Hearing Assistive Technology (district personnel will provide in-service training as required).
• More than 6 months of experience at providing communication facilitation and/or interpreting as required by the position.
• Physically capable of performing the job duties.
• Should the Educational Interpreter be a Registered Visual Language Interpreter, they must demonstrate that they are a current member in good standing of the provincial and national associations of Visual Language Interpreters (WAVLI, CASLI) as a requirement.

This is a unionized position. Job description #97 is available at sd79.bc.ca.

To view the original posting, please visit Make a Future at: https://bit.ly/38uOfz3.

Please forward completed resumes including official transcripts, Grade 12 or equivalent certificate and a covering letter indicating how you believe you meet our qualifications, and three work references with permission to contact. Please submit electronic applications as one PDF.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until filled and can be dropped off at the School Board Office, emailed or faxed to:

Jen Christenson, Staffing Officer and Systems Analyst
Cowichan Valley School District
2557 Beverly Street, Duncan, BC V9L 2X3
Email: jchristenson@sd79.bc.ca Ph: 250-748-0321 (ext. 282) Fax: 250-748-6591

Thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.