Educational Assistant 3 - Temporary

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a temporary Educational Assistant in various schools.


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
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
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

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.