SA - 12: Educational Assistant 4

Fort McMurray Catholic School Division; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is seeking a full-time Educational Assistant for elementary grades. The role focuses on supporting cognition, communication, physical and social development under a teacher's guidance.

Qualifications include an Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma; NVCI Level A&B may be required; ability to swim is listed. The position starts ASAP with a closing date of Sept 14, 2026, and requires collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma.
• NVCI Level A&B may be required.
• Ability to swim.

Responsibilities

• Support students' growth in cognition, communication, physical and social development.
• Support and/or implement teacher directed programming.
• Work collaboratively under guidance of teacher, CST and a multi-disciplinary team.
• Implement specialist strategies (OT, PT, SLP) to achieve goals.
• Implement behaviour management and educational strategies to facilitate learning.
• Provide supervision and support in use of adaptive and learning technologies.

Skills

Ability to swim

Education

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

NVCI Level A&B (may be required)

Job description

Position: SA - 12: Educational Assistant – EA 4
Location: St. Anne
Hours/Week: 25-31 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: September 14th, 2026
Job Reference: SA12-09082026
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Elementary grades 1-6.

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
• May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B
• Ability to swim

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
• 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.

will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.