SA - 3: Educational Assistant 4

Fort Madison Community School District; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is seeking a full-time Educational Assistant (EA) to support ECS and Elementary students in a collaborative setting. The selected candidate will work under teacher guidance, participate in multi-disciplinary planning, and implement adaptive strategies to foster learning and development.

Responsibilities include assisting with cognitive, communication, physical, and social growth, applying behaviour plans, and supporting use of assistive technologies.

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
• NVCI Level A&B certification preferred or may be required
• Ability to swim and support students with diverse needs

Responsibilities

• Support students' growth in cognition, communication, physical and social development
• Assist with teacher-directed programming and adjustments as directed
• Collaborate with teachers, CST and multi-disciplinary team
• Implement strategies from specialists (OT, PT, SLP, etc.) to reach goals
• Apply behaviour management and school-wide behaviour plans when needed
• Provide clear, age-appropriate communication and reinforcement
• Support students with adaptive/learning technologies and devices
• Supervise students indoors and outdoors as directed

Skills

Ability to swim

Education

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

NVCI Level A&B

Job description

Pos i tion : SA - 3 : Educational Assistant – EA 4

Location: St. Anne

Hours/Week: 25-31 h ours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: September 3 rd , 2026

Job Reference: SA 3 - 0 8 2 7 2026

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

We thank all applicants for their interest.