FB - 21: Educational Assistant 2
- Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Listed closing date
- Working hours
- 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Location: Father Beauregard
Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: October 23rd, 2026
Job Reference: FB21-10192026
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
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
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.
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. Please submit resumes to with the job reference number in the subject line.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Support students’ cognitive, communication, physical, and social development by implementing teacher-directed programming and specialist strategies. Assist with literacy and numeracy, personal care, behavior support, student supervision, and physical handling or transfers when needed.
Requirements
An Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma is required, along with the ability to collaborate with teachers and multidisciplinary team members and support students with diverse needs. The successful candidate must provide a Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check, and be computer literate, including fluency with email, the Internet, and MS Office.
Skills
- Student Development Support
- Teacher-Directed Programming
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Occupational Therapy Strategies
- Physical Therapy Strategies
- Literacy Support
- Numeracy Support
- Toileting Assistance
- Positive Reinforcement
- Behavior Support
- Student Supervision
- Lifting and Transferring Students
- Communication
- Microsoft Office
- Email and Internet
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Education
Keywords
- Educational Assistant Certificate
- Educational Assistant Diploma
- Early Childhood Services
- Cognition
- Communication Development
- Physical Development
- Social Development
- Teacher-Directed Programming
- Multidisciplinary Team
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Toileting Routines
- Positive Reinforcement
- Behavior Strategies
- Student Supervision
- Student Lifting and Transfers
- Criminal Reference Check
- Vulnerable Sector Check
- Internet
- MS Office