Cover Supervisor

Manor School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PA

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  18 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  6 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,335.49 - £19,335.49 Annually (Actual)

Cover Supervisor job summary

Hours: 32 hours a week, 39 weeks a year.

Salary: £19,335.49 (2 vacancies)

Start date: ASAP

The Role:

A cover supervisor helps to create a structured environment for pupils to complete curriculum activities in the absence of their teacher. This is usually a short-term absence, with the teacher expected to pick up where the cover supervisor has left off.

Key Tasks:

• Supervising pupils, ensuring they are engaged in the classwork

• Encouraging pupils to interact

• Helping pupils to become more independent in their learning

• Establishing trust with pupils, interacting with them according to individual needs

• Assisting pupils with tasks as needed

• Creating a safe, positive, supportive classroom environment

• Promoting good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policies, encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their behaviour

• Collecting completed work and returning it to the teacher

• Assisting with the supervision of pupils before and after school and at break times

• Providing feedback to teachers on pupil’s achievement, progress, and if any problems

About You:

• An ability to communicate effectively with younger people, as well as deal with their basic emotional and practical needs

• Having some knowledge or training in child development and learning

• Being enthusiastic, dedicated and helpful

• Being able to deal with difficult pupil behaviour

Benefits:

• Access to retail discounts, and technology schemes

• Access to Cycle to Work

• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.

• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional

• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.

• Discounted gym membership

• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours – while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work

• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.

We look forward to your response.

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated*

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Manor School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1007 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Manor School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/manor-school-wellingborough

Our mission is ‘Success for All’ - within our school and Trust communities, fulfilled through our determination for raising aspirations and developing character within a positive environment. We are passionate about inspiring our students to be confident, ambitious, and successful individuals. We teach and promote our school values of Resilience, Empathy, Aspiration, Curiosity and Humanity. From these, students are able display the virtues of kindness, gratitude, self-discipline, and personal responsibility. We have the highest expectations of our students and unashamedly uphold a warm professional culture. Within our community, students and staff are known, valued, developed, and supported to be successful and happy. This ensures our students are polite, kind to each other and work hard.

We are blessed to spend our days with wonderful children. But don’t just take our word for it…come and see for yourself! We encourage you to visit Manor School.

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