FB - 18: Educational Assistant 2

Pos ition : FB - 1 8 : Educational Assistant – EA 2

Location: Father Beauregard

Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: September 22 nd , 2026

Job Reference: FB18 - 09 15 202 6

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

Qualifications:

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

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 other member of the multi-disciplinary team
• Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
• Able to work with student to implement and support literacy/numeracy
• Toileting routines if required
• Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
• Work and play at student's physical level of their activities
• Swim program, if required
• Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
• Physical ability to lift and move students
• Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision

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/behavioural, 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.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date

will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.