9 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    ASAP - subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks

  • Closing date

    16 May 2025 at 8am

  • Date listed

    1 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Cover Supervisor

Working pattern

Part time, full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£22,144.00 - £25,087.00 Annually (Actual) H4 to H5 Grade plus outer fringe

Cover Supervisor job summary

We are looking for two professional, friendly and flexible Cover Supervisors to supervise classes during short-term teacher absences, on a full-time/part-time basis.

The maximum hours we can offer is 32.5 hours per week across Mondays to Fridays, the core working hours will be from 8:10 am to 3:30 pm. If you would like to apply on a part-time basis, please specify on your application the number of days/hours per week you are applying for. Flexible days for part-timers could be accommodated for the right candidate.

We can offer you the opportunity to work with dedicated staff and enthusiastic pupils in a high achieving broad education environment. We will provide training to enhance and support your professional development.

Contract: Full-time / Part-time, Permanent contract

Grade: H4 to H5

Hours:

For full-time it will be 32.5 hours per week across Mondays to Fridays

Term time plus 1 week

Actual Salary:

For 32.5 hours per week, term time plus 1 week contract, the actual salary will be from £22,144 to £25,087 per annum. Part-time salary will be pro-rata’d accordingly.

Start Date: As soon as possible - subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks

For details of the role please refer to the Application Pack and Job Description.

In return we can offer:

Additional training and support

Ongoing professional development

Free Lunch on working days

Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym

Staff Wellbeing Programme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking on school site

As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy.

Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.

Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)

St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Online Searches

We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.

Right to work in UK

We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.

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 St George's School

School type
Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1384 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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DO YOU WANT TO WORK WHERE YOU FEEL YOU BELONG?

TEN GREAT REASONS TO JOIN THE ST GEORGE'S TEAM

1. Be part of a vibrant, inspiring and supportive team

2. Everyone’s contributions are valued and encouraged

3. A place where your work will ‘make a difference’ and be appreciated by pupils

4. Learning is what we do; with passion

5. Unique opportunity to work in one of the leading state boarding schools in the country

6. Students champion and promote our community’s high standards and aspirations

7. Excellent behaviour is the norm, not the exception

8. Career development is encouraged and supported through great training

9. A sense of belonging; part of a community and the St George’s ‘Family’

10. Where the worst thing about work is going home at night

Working at St George’s also comes with a number of free additional fringe benefits*: childcare voucher scheme; Employee Assistance Programme; on-site parking; access to excellent sports and fitness facilities and provision of lunch. On-site accommodation for specific posts may also available at reduced rates.

* Staff terms and conditions are liable to review and change from time to time

In 2014 OFSTED wrote that "This school has got the magic formula", and we have to say we agree!

St George’s is a unique place to work. It is the perfect blend of high quality, innovative teaching and a community which cares. It has a highly supportive pastoral system as well as a residential state boarding community, all of which is firmly cemented in our Christian principles and strong commitment to our values of mutual respect, endeavour and sense of community. We hold on to our tradition and embrace the future with equal relish.

St George’s is consistently in the top percentile of schools nationally for academic performance and rated outstanding by Ofsted. However we are not driven by such external measures but by our passion to provide the best learning and life experience we can for the pupils entrusted to our care.

We hope that you will share our enthusiasm and drive to continue to make St George’s an exciting place to work and learn.

Join us for a career at a school that certainly wants us to "Aim Higher".

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