Cover Supervisor
Colyton Grammar School, Colyton, Devon, EX24 6HN37 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 March 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 February 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Casual - Permanent
Contract type
- Permanent
Hourly rate
- £16.87
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Educated to A-level standard or equivalent
- Working with young people in a supportive way
- Working with Microsoft Office 365 or equivalent systems
- Previous work in secondary education setting
- Working with a school management information system
- Self-motivated
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Proactive and highly organised
- Able to work under pressure in a busy environment
- Ability to work effectively both alone and in a team
- Ability to communicate and relate effectively with a wide range of students and staff
- Prioritise own workload
- An understanding of GDPR / data protection
- Understanding of student
wellbeing and safeguarding
What the school offers its staff
Salary: Colyton Support Staff Scale 4 Spinal Point 16. Pay per hour: £16.87
Further details about the role
We currently are looking for dynamic and flexible Cover Supervisors to join our pool at CGS who can support our staff and students by delivering lessons and supervision.
Job overview
You’ll be an expert in deploying classroom management skills, enabling students to achieve their lesson objectives whilst offering appropriate support where needed and helping to assist the wider faculty when teaching staff are otherwise engaged.
The right candidate will have:
- Experience of working with young people in a supportive way
- Educated to A-level standard or equivalent
- A qualification relevant to classroom management e.g. Teaching Assistant NVQ is desirable, as is experience of using ICT and other technology to support learning
- Solid communication skills and the ability to successfully manage classroom behaviour and focus
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload, delivering set lesson content effectively and efficiently and an ability to work effectively both alone and in a team
Why Colyton Grammar School?
You’ll make a key difference in student’s progression with the ability to experience a leading role in the classroom, working as part of a wider team, with access to further developmental opportunities available.
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
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CVs are not accepted.
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About Colyton Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1061 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Colyton Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- mchambers@colytongrammar.com
Colyton Grammar School is a state-funded academy with a selective intake, situated in East Devon.
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