SK 4 - Educational Assistant 4

7 days ago

Fort McMurray AB, Fort McMurray Census Division, AB; Alberta, Canada Fort McMurray Catholic School Division Full-time

Position:

SK 4 - Educational Assistant - EA 4

Location:

Saint Kateri Catholic School

Hours/Week:

12.5 - 15.5 hours per week

Start Date:

ASAP

Closing Date:

September 30th, 2026

Job Reference:

SK4-09242026

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a term half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.

Qualifications

  • Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
  • May be required to take SMG training for safe interventions (similar to NVCI)

Requirements

  • Support students' growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
  • Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
  • Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Complete student or safety documentation, if directed by supervisor
  • Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
  • Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
  • Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
  • Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
  • Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
  • Work and play at student's physical level of their activities
  • Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs, including for speech and non-verbal communication
  • Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
  • Swim program, able to swim in 50 meters, level 1 and 2
  • Medical Procedures – including, but not limited to, Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting routines or diabetic monitoring may be required
  • Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
  • Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
  • Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
  • Physical ability to lift and move students
  • Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
  • Follow all relevant health and safety requirements as directed by supervisor

Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behaviourial, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.

The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.

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