Fort McMurray Catholic School Division Looking for Educational Assistant 3 at Fort McMurray, AB Full Time

Position: Educational Assistant – EA 3/4

Location: Saint Gabriel

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Elementary grades 1-6.

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

· 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

· Swim program, able to swim in 50 meters, level 1 and 2

· 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

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.

All FMCSD employees must have on file a clear Criminal Reference and a Vulnerable Sector Check. 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.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Salary: $23.00-$25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Housing allowance
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Vision care

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location