SM - Educational Assistant 2
Listed on 2026-10-14
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Education / Teaching
Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Special Education Assistant, Teacher Assistant/ Paraprofessional
Position: SM - 34:
Educational Assistant – EA 2
Location:
St. Martha
Hours/Week: 12.5-15.5 Hours per week
Start Date:
ASAP
Closing Date:
October 15th, 2026
Job Reference: SM
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.
Qualifications- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- 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 other member of the 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
- Toileting routines if required
- 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
- Swim program, if required
- Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
- Physical ability to lift and move students
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.
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