Cover Supervisor
Alcester Academy, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49 6QQThis job expired on 4 October 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
6 January 2025
Closing date
4 October 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
24 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Pro Rata £20,460
Pay scale
- NJC Scale J, Starting at Scalepoint 6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Support for pupils:
- Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations.
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils within the classroom, encourage them to interact and work co-operatively with others and engage all in activities
- Monitor and provide for the care, safety and welfare of pupils
- Ensure that teaching and learning takes place in the absence of the assigned class teacher
Support to teachers:
- Supervising a whole class to undertake set work/activities and can include introducing and closing the class
- Maintaining good order and managing behaviour constructively
- Promotion of self-control and independence
- Keeping pupils on task as necessary
- Responding appropriately to questions raised by pupils
- Collecting any completed work and returning it to the appropriate teacher
- Dealing with immediate problems and emergencies in accordance with the school’s policies
- Reporting back on progress and behaviour of pupils during the class and any issues arising
Support to the Academy:
- Understand and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting concerns to an appropriate person.
- Understand the school’s policies relevant to the specialist subject/support provided and how they relate to local and national frameworks/policies.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure all pupils have equal access to opportunities to learn and develop
- Contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of the school
- Support the academy through conducting duties in line with the agreed duties rota
- Apply policies relating to behavior and discipline with consistency
- Attend and participate in regular meetings and participate in training and other learning activities as required
- Undertake planned supervision of pupils’ out of school hours learning activities, where appropriate
- Supervise pupils on visits, trips under the overall guidance of the responsible teacher, in accordance with an appropriate risk assessment and LEA guidance
- Staff the Isolation Room, or support specific students as directed as part of day to day deployment if there are no cover needs
- Be conversant with and ensure staff follow the Managing Absence Policy.
- When not assigned to cover, be available to be assigned unplanned activities and cover for absent colleagues as the need arises.
- Undertake administrative tasks as appropriate
What the school offers its staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Alcester Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for appointment to this post. For shortlisted candidates, please be aware that online searches may be done as part of due diligence check.
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About Alcester Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 635 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Alcester Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- admin@alcesteracademy.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01789762285
Alcester Academy is a small, oversubscribed school in South Warwickshire meeting the needs of 648 pupils in Y7-11.
The school is a stand-alone academy providing education for children in the local priority area. Alcester Academy has enjoyed securing extremely positive pupil outcomes over the last four years. This has placed the school in the top five percent of schools nationally and in a most favourable position in comparison to selective schools.
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