Location: Various
Hours/Week: Varies based on demand
Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for casual educational assistants to join our team.
Qualifications:
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Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
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May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B
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Previous experience working with children who have exceptionalities
Requirements:
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Support students growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
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Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
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Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team
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Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
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Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
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Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
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Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
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Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
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Work and play at students physical level of their activities
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Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
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Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
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Medical Procedures such as Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting, or diabetic monitoring may be required
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Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
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Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
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Able to work with students with emotional, behavioural or other disabilities
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Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
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Physical ability to lift and move students
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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.
