Job Description

Position: Educational Assistant - EA 3Location: Various Schools Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week Start Date: August 26, 2022Closing Date: Open Until Filled Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking qualified Educational Assistants to join the team for the upcoming school year. There are openings are various schools as well as casual opportunities. If you are interested, apply today!Qualifications:

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
• NVCI Training

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 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
• 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.Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing datewill be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest. Job Type: Full-timeSalary: $23.00-$25.00 per hourBenefits:

• Company pension
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Housing allowance
• On-site parking
• Vision care

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Expected start date: 2022-08-26