FB 19 – Educational Assistant 2

Position: FB 19 – Educational Assistant – EA 2, half time

Location: Father Beauregard School

Hours/Week: 12.5-25.5 Hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: September 23, 2024

Job Reference: FB19-09172024

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

Qualifications:

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

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

Able to work with student to implement and support literacy/numeracy

Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies

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, if required

Toileting routines

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.