Cover Supervisor
Ridgewood School, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7UB19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible after appointment
Closing date
17 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £23,534.00 - £25,483.00 Annually (Actual)
Cover Supervisor job summary
Purpose of the role:
Supervision of classes in the absence of the subject teacher on a short‐term basis.
Delivering pre‐planned lessons to pupils under an agreed system of supervision adjusting activities according to pupils’ needs and responses.
To promote the aims and objectives of our school and maintain its philosophy of education, ensuring the promotion and safeguarding of the welfare of our students within school.
Main duties and responsibilities:
1. To provide students with necessary resources for their learning.
2. To answer students’ queries regarding the instructions left by the subject teacher.
3. Produce lessons/work plans/worksheets as directed.
4. To register and record student attendance in lessons.
5. To ensure classes enter and exit classrooms in an orderly fashion, following established School Protocols and systems.
6. To ensure classrooms are left tidy and ready for the next lesson after dismissing the class.
7. To liaise with Heads of Departments to answer queries about work set by the subject teacher when appropriate, and without leaving students unsupervised.
8. Support pupils/staff in allocated department(s) as required by Head of Department.
9. To invigilate examinations and tests as and when required.
10. To discipline pupils within the policies and practices of the department and the school. Training will be given to ensure all Cover Supervisors know how to use the school discipline system.
11. Provide addition support within the behaviour team through supervision of On Call and whole school duties.
12. To assist with school technician duties as required.
13. To participate in personal annual review process.
14. To be aware of the responsibility for personal Health, Safety and Welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
15. To co-operate with the employer on all issues to do with Health, Safety and Welfare.
16. To undertake such other reasonable tasks that the Headteacher may from time to time reasonably request.
17. To undertake appropriate training if required.
Hours of work to be 37 hours per week, term time only + 20 days (negotiable). Daily hours to cover the school working day.
All employees contribute to the safety and wellbeing of the children and young people in the school.
This job role sits alongside the requirement for staff to abide by all school policies and relevant national and local requirements including terms and conditions and national standards. This job profile is not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties as necessary and appropriate.
All posts at the school are subject to a six month probationary period. Confirmation of the position is subject to satisfactory completion of this period.
Commitment to safeguarding
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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 Ridgewood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1457 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ridgewood School website
Staff and students at Ridgewood work hard every day to embody the school’s core values: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We are enjoying a trajectory of continued success and look forward to welcoming a successful applicant who can join us on our journey. We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made as a school, having laid strong foundations for further improvement going forward.
Our school motto, ‘Prepare for the road ahead’, represents our belief in preparing our staff and students for their future. We exemplify our motto not only in terms of academic achievement, but also in terms of the training, enrichment and experiences which make us all model citizens. Our school values underpin what we do and contribute to our ethos in everything we undertake as a school community. We set our standards high and do not compromise, because we believe in the best for everyone.
Never has there been a better time to join us. We are in the early stages of planning a multi-million-pound new build that will ensure that the staff and students benefit from 21st Century resources. We are regularly oversubscribed in Year 7 and our Post-16 provision is thriving.
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