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Cover Supervisor

Harris City Academy Crystal Palace, London, SE19 2JH

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• Start date details

  September

• Closing date

  3 June 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  23 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, term time: Actual salary £23,770.23-£24,128.40 (38 weeks per year, 37.5 hours per week)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £28,272-£28,698
• Pay scale: Grade 4 SCP 8-9 (Outer London)
• Additional allowances:

  + Performance and Loyalty Bonus + Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan + Additional Harris Benefits

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a resourceful Cover Supervisor at Harris City Academy Crystal Palace to provide classroom cover in the absence of teachers. This role will likely suit you if you have previous experience in a similar role, providing cover within an educational establishment.

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• Qualifications to A Level standard or equivalent
• Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements towards self-reliance that are appropriate to the age and development stage of the students
• Basic knowledge of SEN and other learning barriers
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• Relevant experience in successfully supervising groups of children aged 11-16
• Previous experience in a school or comparable large organisation
• Understanding of a secondary school environment
• Ability to provide classroom cover – within agreed parameters – in the absence of the class teacher
• Ability to consistently and effectively implement agreed behaviour management strategies
• Ability to use language and other communication skills that students can understand and relate to
• Ability to establish positive relationships with students and empathise with their needs
• Ability to demonstrate active listening skills
• Ability to provide levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with learning tasks as appropriate to students' needs, encouraging the students to stay on task
• Ability to monitor the students' response to the learning activities and, where appropriate, modify/adapt activities agreed with the teacher to achieve the intended learning outcomes

For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.

What the school offers its staff

Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is a mixed Academy for 1,300 students aged 11-18, with a large sixth form of nearly 400 students. The Academy has three consecutive Outstanding judgments by Ofsted, with the most recent inspection in 2014 finding the Academy to be Outstanding in every aspect. We are a consistently high performing school. Our motto, ‘All Can Achieve' encapsulates our vision that all members of the Academy community are supported and encouraged to achieve their absolute potential. We believe that a well-supported and valued staff body is the key to our success.

We are the ‘Teaching School Hub' for Croydon and Sutton and we are able to offer all teachers an extensive programme of first class professional development. Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is part of the Harris Federation and this enables us to offer you a comprehensive induction programme and training and development opportunities to support your career development including Masters and other qualifications.

In addition to the opportunities for career progression, training and development, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits.

Further details about the role

Your key duties will be:

• To supervise lessons for absent teachers.
• To allocate, explain and oversee cover work set.
• To report to the relevant Cover Manager any deficiencies with cover work set to include quality or appropriateness of cover.
• To offer general assistance to students in completing cover work in class.
• To follow the academy's in class behaviour management and referral systems.
• To organize the days lessons efficiently in advance so that they run as smoothly as possible.
• When not engaged in carrying out cover, to undertake administrative or student support duties at the direction of the line manager or the relevant Vice Principal.
• Occasional supervision of post-16 students in their study base.
• To take registers in all lessons and promptly report any in lesson absences.
• To liaise directly with teachers to ensure cover lessons are delivered to a high quality.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.

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About Harris City Academy Crystal Palace

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1258 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Harris City Academy Crystal Palace website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: info@harriscrystalpalace.org.uk
• Phone number: 0208 771 2261
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/harris-city-academy-crystal-palace (opens in new tab)

Harris City Academy Crystal Palace is a pioneering academy for 1,300 students aged 11-18, and celebrated its 25th anniversary last academic year. The founding academy of the Harris Federation, it has three consecutive outstanding judgments by Ofsted, most recently finding the academy to be outstanding in every aspect in 2014. It is one of the most oversubscribed comprehensive schools in the country and in the top 5% for performance. Come and see us in action: visits to Harris City Academy Crystal Palace are strongly encouraged and very welcome. Please call 0208 771 2261 or info@harriscrystalpalace.org.uk to arrange a time to come in or an informal conversation with the Principal.

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