Position : SA - 12 : Educational Assistant – EA 4 Location : St.

Anne Hours/Week : 25-31 hours per week Start Date : ASAP Closing Date : September 14th, 2026 Job Reference : SA 12 - 0908 2026 Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full time Educational Assistant in Elementary grades 1-6.

Qualifications

- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma - May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B; - Ability to swim 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 - 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 students' physical level of their activities - Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs - Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required - Medical Procedures – such as Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, or diabetic monitoring - 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 - Swim program 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.

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