Position: GS 20 - Educational Assistant - EA 4 Location: Good Shepherd Catholic School Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week Start Date: ASAP Closing Date: September 15th, 2026 Job Reference: GS20-09092026 Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Grades 1-6.

Qualifications - Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma - May be required to take SMG training for protected 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.

📌 GS 20 - Educational Assistant 4 (Red Deer)
🏢 Fort McMurray Catholic School Division
📍 Red Deer