Position: OLR - 21 - Educational Assistant – EA 4

Location: Our Lady of the Rivers

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: August 29, 2025

Closing Date: July 23, 2025

Job Reference: OLR21-07142025

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

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, 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**.**

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