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GS - 1: Educational Assistant 4
- Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Working hours
- 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Position: GS - 1: Educational Assistant – EA 4
Location: Good Shepherd
Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: October 1st, 2026
Job Reference: GS1-09252026
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.
Qualifications
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.
Location: Good Shepherd
Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: October 1st, 2026
Job Reference: GS1-09252026
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.
Qualifications
- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- May be required to take SMG training for safe interventions (similar to NVCI)
- 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
- Complete student or safety documentation, if directed by supervisor
- 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, including for speech and non-verbal communication
- Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- Swim program, able to swim in 50 meters, level 1 and 2
- Medical Procedures – including, but not limited to, Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting routines 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
- Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
- Physical ability to lift and move students
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
- Follow all relevant health and safety requirements as directed by supervisor
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.
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Responsibilities
Support students’ cognitive, communication, physical, and social development by implementing teacher-directed programming, specialist strategies, and behaviour and educational plans. Provide supervision and assistance with learning technologies, personal and medical care, student transfers, and indoor and outdoor activities while following health and safety requirements.
Requirements
An Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma is required, and safe-intervention training may be required. Candidates should be able to support students with autism, complex medical needs, and modified curricula; perform relevant medical and physical-care tasks; swim 50 metres; and provide required criminal record and vulnerable sector checks.
Skills
- Student Support
- Educational Programming
- Behaviour Management
- Positive Behaviour Plans
- Modified Curriculum Support
- Communication
- Adaptive Learning Technology
- Student Supervision
- Medical Procedures
- Student Transfers and Lifting
- Swimming
- Health and Safety
- Team Collaboration
- Student Documentation
- Microsoft Office
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Categories
- Education
Keywords
- Educational Assistant
- Early Childhood Services
- Educational Assistant Certificate
- Educational Assistant Diploma
- Safe Intervention Training
- Student Development
- Teacher-Directed Programming
- Multidisciplinary Team
- Student Documentation
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Behaviour Management
- Positive Behaviour Plan
- Modified Curriculum
- Autism
- Complex Medical Needs
- Catheterization
- Tube Feeding
- Feeding and Swallowing Support
- Diabetic Monitoring
- Adaptive Technology
- Assistive Communication
- Nonverbal Communication
- Student Supervision
- Health and Safety
- Microsoft Office
- Criminal Reference Check
- Vulnerable Sector Check