Cover Supervisor
Highgate Wood Secondary School, London, N8 8RNThis job expired on 27 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
27 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
17 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Mon - Fri / 36 Hours a week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE £30,033-£31,440 - Actual pro rata £28,242 - £29,565.
What skills and experience we're looking for
Cover Supervisor
Support Staff Salary Scale 5 - Term Time - 36 hours a week
FTE £30,033-£31,440 -Actual pro rata £28,242 - £29,565.
Highgate Wood School wishes to appoint a resourceful and flexible Cover Supervisor for an immediate start.
The role will require excellent literacy and numeracy skills, the ability to communicate effectively and have very strong organisational skills with the ability to work flexibly.
You will be part of a team responsible for supervising whole classes of students to cover short-term absences of teachers. This will involve facilitating students learning through supporting them with set activities (provided by teachers), responding to questions from students and adhering to the schools behaviour policies.
Previous experience in a similar role or having classroom experience will be useful but not essential. The post holder will also require a good level of ICT competency and the ability to learn new skills where required.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have the ability to form good working relationships with students, parents/carers and colleagues
- Have good oral and written communication skills
- Be able to adapt and be flexible in working practices and the ability to know when to use initiative
- Have a high degree of professionalism in your approach to work and tasks set
- Have an ability to be a good role model for students and colleagues
- Have experience of working with/caring for children or adults who have barriers to learning and/or special educational needs
- Have experience working as part of a team
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you
- The opportunity to work in a continuously improving school.
- The chance to join a talented and highly committed staff team.
- Excellent students who are keen to excel and operate in an ethos underpinned by the principles of courtesy, consideration, cooperation & contribution.
- Our commitment to provide CPD opportunities to ensure all staff continue to develop.
- A learning environment where imagination and commitment are encouraged and valued.
Further information can be requested via the school HR department onhr@hws.haringey.sch.uk.
Closing date for applications: Friday 27 September 2024 at 9:00 am.
Interviews will be held w/c 30 September
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
How to apply:
- To apply for this post, please download the application form this (TES) website or visit our website for an application pack and form,https://hws.haringey.sch.uk/about-us/join-us/vacancies/
Please note that CVs alone are not accepted in line with Safer Recruitment practices.
Commitment to safeguarding
Highgate Wood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and is likely to come under the requirements of the Childcare (Disqualification) 2009 Regulations. The successful applicant will be required to complete a declaration to establish whether they are disqualified under these regulations.
In line with safer recruitment practices, we will conduct an online search for all shortlisted candidates. This is part of our safeguarding checks and seeks publicly available information on candidates’ suitability to work with children.
About Highgate Wood Secondary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1554 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@hws.haringey.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02083427970
Highgate Wood School is a mixed comprehensive school providing secondary education. We want everyone to feel welcome, safe and secure in the school and believe that each of us has a valuable contribution to make to our community and its continued success. We firmly believe that Everyone Matters. Our core values are embodied in the 4Cs - Courtesy, Consideration, Cooperation, and Contribution, the principles of Respect and Honesty and the commitment to encouraging Perseverance and Hard Work within a Growth Mind-set.
It is through these values that we bring to life our mission statement: "Making a positive difference to students' achievements and experiences, maintaining the highest expectations and inspiring self-belief”.
Ethos and values
Our established values of Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation (the 4Cs), together with our Growth Mind-set focus on perseverance and hard work and our emphasis on honesty and respect underpin the school’s behaviour ethos.
Our school motto is Everyone Matters and this ensures that we take an approach that values every student as an individual, with a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities enabling talent and creativity to be identified and nurtured.
Arranging a visit to Highgate Wood Secondary School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@hws.haringey.sch.uk.
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