Educational Assistant - Palliser Beyond Borders - Temp Full-Time

The Palliser School Division; Coaldale; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ASEBP benefit package

Job summary

Palliser Beyond Borders is seeking a Temporary Full-Time Educational Assistant to join our team starting October 26, 2026 (or date mutually agreed). The role supports students with executive functioning, emotional regulation, and credit attainment toward graduation.

Responsibilities include safety first, collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, and providing instructional support in diverse settings while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.

Qualifications

• Completion of a recognized post-secondary certificate in child care, development, or healthcare with practicum experience with students and children with complex needs.
• Equivalent combinations of directly related education and experience may also be considered.
• Current Standard First Aid and CPR certificates (Child CPR is a strong asset).

Responsibilities

• Ensure student safety and well-being.
• Collaborate with the learning team to plan IPP goals and participate in meetings with parents/guardians.
• Provide educational instruction and support students using technology access.
• Maintain professional relationships and offer recommendations to teachers to help students reach goals.
• Maintain student confidentiality and a supportive, patient attitude.

Education

Post-secondary certificate in child care/development

Equivalent combinations of related education and experience

Current Standard First Aid and CPR certificates

Job description

Educational Assistant Temporary Full-Time

Inspire Minds, Ignite Potential, and Join Our Team Today

Location: Palliser Beyond Borders

Anticipated Start Date: October 26, 2026

Anticipated End Date: June 30, 2027

Assignment: Educational Assistant

FTE: Temporary Full-Time

The Palliser School Division is committed to engendering and supporting the values of the broader society: empathy, integrity, respect, trust, and responsibility. If the children of this community are to realize these values, the division acknowledges its responsibility to provide an exemplary education. Students come first. Learning is our central purpose. Public education serves the common good. The Palliser School Division encourages an inclusive and equitable workplace, which supports our diverse student and employee community. We encourage all applicants to join our dynamic, diverse, and collaborative culture and welcome applications from all qualified individuals.

Palliser Beyond Borders, or PBB, spans a wide area of southern Alberta serving students in the large urban centers of Calgary as well as in small, agricultural communities as far south as Coaldale. By combining innovative teaching methods with today’s technology, we offer students and families a unique multicultural education experience that includes and extends the model of traditional K‑12 classroom learning in local communities to education without borders in countries across the globe.

Invites enthusiastic individuals to apply for the position of Temporary, Full-Time Educational Assistant to join our team starting October 26, 2026 (or date mutually agreed upon). This role is designed to eliminate learning bottlenecks, build students’ executive functioning skills, facilitate emotional regulation, and support credit attainment toward high school graduation. Desirable Assets – Experience in an outreach or flexible learning environment; Confidence in facilitating small‑group pro‑social activities or games; High degree of patience, humor, adaptability, and personal boundary management when working with complex teens.

Benefits

• Comprehensive paid benefit package through Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan (ASEBP)

Qualifications

• Completion of a recognized post‑secondary certificate or recognized vocational certificate in child care/development or healthcare with demonstrated successful practicum experience working with students and children with complex medical needs
• Other equivalent combinations of directly related education and directly related experience may also be considered
• Current Standard First Aid and CPR certificates (Child CPR Certificate is a strong asset)

Responsibilities

• Ensures client safety, personal safety and safety of others
• Works with a multidisciplinary team to provide input into planning the student’s Individual Program Plan. Participates, as required, as a member of the student’s learning team in periodic meetings with the students, parents/guardians to review goals and develop revisions. Collects data to support student growth and the IPP development.
• Provides educational instruction for students and supports students with accessing technology.
• Maintains an effective professional working relationship within the student’s learning team by providing suggestions to the Teacher based on experience and knowledge of the students, with respect to ways to help the students reach their goals, including recognition of the support a student needs to reach their unique goals.
• Communicates with parents and the student’s learning team members, to provide information of interest and receive information that may impact the child’s progress.
• Facilitates and encourages the development of the student’s self‑esteem and independence through established programs and techniques deemed appropriate for the individual student.
• Encourages students to develop and maintain positive interaction.
• As required, provides personal care including toileting, diapering, feeding, dressing, grooming, etc. ensuring that student dignity is maintained. Attends to physical needs including lifting, positioning and range of motion programs as identified by appropriate personnel.
• Ensures the safety of students in the school and community, which includes maintaining close supervision of students, ensuring student equipment is sanitized and put away, retrieving students who attempt to leave their learning environment; calming and/or restraining students engaged in challenging behaviours; supervising and assisting students who utilize a variety of life skills tools (i.e. scissors, cooking utensils, etc).
• Maintains confidentiality, and a patient, supportive and enthusiastic commitment to students.
• Maintains collegial relationships with the student’s learning team.
• Works with students in a variety of settings in the school and community, including assisting in the supervision of students at breaks or on field trips as required.
• Assists with and sanitizing educational tools and clean - up in the classroom resulting from spills and other accidents.
• Performs other related duties as required.

In order to maintain a safe and secure working environment, applicants new to The Palliser School Division must provide:

• Criminal Record Check, including vulnerable sector check from Local Police Service or RCMP detachment;
• Social Insurance Number (SIN) card or document issued by Service Canada; SIN card/document must be in current legal name. Name on SIN card/document must match your Government Issued ID and Criminal Record Check;
• Government issued ID - valid driver's license, valid passport or nexus card.

Please ensure you attach the following documentation to your application:

• Cover letter directed to Jason Kwasny, Principal, Palliser Beyond Borders;
• Resume summarizing training and experience;
• Copy of your most recent evaluation;
• Minimum of three professional references.

We thank all those who apply, but only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

By virtue of the submission of an application, the applicant agrees that the superintendent or designate can contact previous employers for the purpose of conducting confidential reference checks whether or not the applicant has listed a reference for that employer.

Mr. Jason Kupery, Director
Palliser School Division