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Educational Assistant – EA 4

Fort McMurray Catholic School Division

This is a Contract position in Fort Mcmurray, AB posted October 29, 2024.

Position: FBI 13 – Educational Assistant – EA 4, Independent Living Program

Location: Father Beauregard School

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Job Reference: FBI13-10232024

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 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, 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.

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.