Description
Location: Father Beauregard School
Hours/Week: 12.5-25.5 Hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Closing Date: September 23, 2024
Job Reference: FB19-09172024
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.
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
Able to work with student to implement and support literacy/numeracy
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
Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
Swim program, if required
Toileting routines
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.
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 hr@fmcsd.ab.ca with the job reference number in the subject line.
