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.