Job Description

Position: GS- 18: Educational Assistant - EA 4 Half-time

Location: Good Sheppard

Hours/Week: 12.5-15.5 Hours per week

Start Date: August 29, 2025

Closing Date: September 5, 2025

Job Reference: GS18-08292025

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.

Qualifications:

? Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma


? May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B


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 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, 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


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.