Cover Supervisor

Lower Farm Academy, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0FG

4 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  30 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 September 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,639.00 - £23,616.00 Annually (Actual) Warwick NJC Spine point 14-17 £28,770 - £31,364 FTE 32.5 hours per weeks Monday - Friday / TTO plus 5 days

Cover Supervisor job summary

Lower Farm Academy is looking for an enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join our team.  We welcome applications from experienced support staff who believe they can make a positive difference to learning by providing our children with exciting and memorable experiences. You will supervise a prepared lesson in the absence of a class teacher, ensuring that in doing so the pupils’ learning and development is continued and maintained.  You will also need to have the ability to communicate the work set by the class teacher to the pupils; ensuring that they are aware of expectations for both behavior and task completion. 

You will:

• Have a positive outlook to ensure the children are at the heart of all your actions. 
• A passion for empowering children to reach their maximum potential. 
• Have experience of working with children of primary school age. 

 

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills 
• Excellent organisational skills 
• Excellent ICT skills 
• Ability to use own initiative and work as part of a team 
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment to meet demands and deadlines 
• Flexibility in your approach and thinking 

 

Why work with us:

There are over 60 schools within the Trust which means we can offer opportunities including:
 
▶️Collaboration across other REAch2 schools, both locally and nationally.
 
▶️ Specialist curriculum support and training from our Trust experts - providing a flightpath for professional development
 
▶️ A support package for staff wellbeing

You’ll be working for a Trust with big ambitions for all our schools to be 'great'. We want to be national leaders in sustainability; to transform our teaching and learning through digital transformation and to ensure social justice is at the heart of what we do.

Safeguarding, Safer Recruitment and Data Protection 

At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.  

We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.

For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.

All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy. 

The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.

Commitment to safeguarding

At REAch2 we recognise that academies and academy personnel are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all of our pupils.

Applying for the job

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About Lower Farm Academy

• School type: Free School, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 283 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Lower Farm Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lower-farm-academy (opens in new tab)

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