GS - 1: Educational Assistant 4

4 days ago

Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada Fort McMurray Catholic School Division Part-time

Pos ition : GS - 1 : Educational Assistant – EA 4

Location: Good Shepherd

Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 h ours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: October 1 st , 2026

Job Reference: GS1 - 09 25 202 6

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a 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/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. Please submit resumes to hr@fmcsd.ab.ca with the job reference number in the subject line.