Position: FM VE 23 - Educational Assistant – EA 3 – High School Vocational Education Location : Father Mercredi Hours per Week : 25 -31 Hours per week Term: Fixed Term Position to January 2027 Status: Temporary Start Date : ASAP Closing Date: September 22 nd 2026 Job Reference: FM VE 23 - 0915 2026 Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Junior High and High School, grades 7-12.

Qualifications - Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

- Non Violent Crisis Intervention training (NVCI) level A&B;
- Swim Program - 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 cooperative under guidance of teacher, CST and other member of the 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
- Swim program, able to swim in 50 meters, level 1 and 2
- Successful implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- 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 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.

📌 FM VE 23 - Educational Assistant 3 – High School Vocational Education (Calgary)
🏢 Fort Madison Community School District
📍 Calgary