Cover Supervisor
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 6EP9 days remaining to apply
Closing date
25 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
14 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £25,024.00 - £26,722.00 Annually (FTE) Actual starting salary based on FTE salary of £29,093
Cover Supervisor job summary
We are looking for a Cover Supervisor to join our support staff team for a fixed term period until July 2025.
We are looking for someone who can consistently provide a high-quality learning environment for our students during the short term absence of the class teacher, ensuring standards of behaviour, engagement and achievement are evident at all times.. Flexibility is key as the daily role is a reactive one requiring you to move to where need is greatest.
Working for 37 hours per week, term time plus 1 week (39 working weeks), you would be working in a classroom environment alongside students. Your main responsibility would be to instruct students about the work set by the teacher and assisting them to stay on task and complete the work set to the best of their ability. You would also learn about school policies and how they are implemented including the school’s Behaviour for Learning Policy.
About us:
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy (OBA) is proud to be a true community school and we seek to serve our community as best we can. Our new colleague will also benefit from being part of Ormiston Academies Trust, a MAT of 43 primary and secondary academies. The Trust’s vision is for all young people to have access to the highest academic, social and practical skills required to achieve their full potential. OAT support all staff so that they can enhance and develop their professional skills whatever their role within the trust.
OBA is on a rapid journey to improvement with committed and caring staff; we hold the students at the heart of everything we do. Our motto – Lucere Aude (Dare To Shine) – truly reflects what we hope for, for all of our students. We want to instil confidence, ambition and a determination to succeed. Our students will leave OBA as forward-thinking young adults who have the skills and knowledge to have a successful and rewarding life, full of opportunity. It is our time to shine.
About you:
Our ideal candidate will have previous experience of working with or interacting with children or young people as well as good interpersonal skills and the ability to earn and maintain the respect of students to ensure the appropriate codes of classroom behaviour are observed.
Applicants for this post must be enthusiastic and possess a determined character, together with a positive approach to working with young people and the ability to set clear guidelines for them. To do this you will have an awareness of, and commitment to, safeguarding practices and behaviour management strategies.
Confidence using a laptop as well as good organisational skills are important for this role.
If you have any questions about this role or to arrange a visit to the academy, please contact recruitment@ob-ac.co.uk or 01928 711643.
Come and be part of our brilliant staff community by joining our team! Please apply before the closing date of 25 November 2024.
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Ormiston Academies Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Flexible working opportunities will be considered.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, online searches, prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Commitment to safeguarding
Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. We pride ourselves on ensuring that all students are able to learn in an environment which is both safe and supportive, whilst recognising the individual needs of all our students.
In order to support the safeguarding work undertaken here at the academy, we have a dedicated safeguarding team who are available should you or your child have concerns about any safeguarding issues.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 940 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy website (opens in new tab)
School location
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