Position:

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Educational Assistant – EA 4

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Independent Living Program

Location:

Father Beauregard

School

Hours/Week:

25-31

Hours per week

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tart Date:

ASAP

Closing Date:

September 15

th

, 2026

Job Reference:

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0909

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Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in the Independent Living Program.

Qualifications:

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B;

Valid First Aid Level C with CPR

Able to Swim in depths up to 50 meters

Requirements:

Support students' growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development

Support and/or implement teacher directed programming

Work cooperative 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 student's 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, toileting, 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

Able to work with students with emotional, behavioural or other disabilities

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.

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📌 FBI 28 - Educational Assistant 4, Independent Living Program (Fort Chipewyan)
🏢 Fort Madison Community School District
📍 Fort Chipewyan