Cover Supervisor
Hightown Primary School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 6AA7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as the successful applicant is available
Closing date
14 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
10 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,859.00 - £33,951.00 Annually (FTE) 24/25 Pay Award Pending - See Trust Pay Policy for further details
Cover Supervisor job summary
This role will be permanent
The hours will be 32.5 hours per week - 8:30am - 3:30pm (including a 30 minute unpaid lunch break)
The actual salary for this role will be £23,123.70
Who we are seeking
Are you someone who is flexible, committed, relishes taking responsibility and who wants to create places of learning that are truly remarkable?
A unique opportunity has arisen at Hightown Primary School - a place where , 'Together we Thrive'. - high 'expectations, aspirations, mutual trust and respect are all underpinned by a warm, nurturing ethos.
We require an exceptional individual who simply loves learning and seeing children achieve! In this interesting role, you will cover classes in the absence of a teacher in addition to leading bespoke interventions that engage and subsequently accelerate the progress of the pupils with whom you are working.
This post provides an ideal opportunity to gain versatile experience in a classroom environment and is particularly suitable for candidates thinking about a career in teaching.
What's special about our Trust?
At Inspire Learning Partnership, we believe that people are the key to delivering exceptional education for every child. Yes, there are some perks to working in our Trust, but we feel that the most significant one, is that we provide you with an environment where you can do your best work, be listened to, involved and valued. Our people strategy is at the heart of our work across the Trust.
The successful applicant will be warmly welcomed into our Trust partnership and able to access a myriad of opportunities and experiences that will support personal and professional growth. We are research led and psychological safety is an important feature of the approach that we take to staff development and growth within our Trust.
What we can offer you:
- The opportunity to work in settings which benefit from being part of a multi-academy trust that is large enough to effectively support schools but small enough to know and care for them individually, and the people who work and learn within them, well. We take staff wellbeing seriously.
- A competitive salary and longer school holidays than maintained schools, including a two- week October half-term break
- A variety of career pathways and bespoke professional development, including a thorough and tailored induction, performance development with a linked Line Manager, network groups, face to face and e-learning. We invest in people
- Supportive colleagues who are committed to the #oneteam ethos.
- Opportunities to observe and ask questions of colleagues and to ‘give things a try’. We encourage innovation, research, bravery and development
- Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Recognition of continuous service with Local Authorities and other Academy Trusts
- CEO Awards to recognise those amazing everyday achievements
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card, cycle to work scheme and ongoing discount offers at Halfords and Tredz
- Electric car charging facility
- The ability to be the change within the community that you will work in
Our community would like a cover supervisor who:
- Exhibits their commitment to maintaining a robust culture of safeguarding
- Demonstrates an affinity with our vision and values
- Is passionate about learning
- Is interested in a research approach, including experimentation and sharing
- Believes that improvement is always possible
- Shows enthusiasm, drive and commitment
- Has the ability to build effective working relationships with pupils and adults
- Has the skills and expertise to understand the needs of all pupils
Has this role got your name on it?
If you have any further questions or would like to arrange a tour of the base setting, please contact the school directly: info.hps@ilpartnership.org,
Early application is encouraged as we anticipate significant interest and therefore reserve the right to interview exceptional candidates prior to the closing date.
Our commitment to safeguarding
Inspire Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all roles in regulated activity. The specific safeguarding responsibilities of this role are outlined within Part One of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024.
Further details concerning our safeguarding policies and procedures, including our statement on the Rehabilitation of Offenders, can be found on the Trust website.
As part of our due diligence and in line with the recommendation made in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to undertake online searches on shortlisted candidates. Further details about our searches can be found within our Recruitment Policy.
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.
About Hightown Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- View all Primaryjobs
- School size
- 178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Hightown Primary School website (opens in new tab)
Hightown Primary School is a member of the multi-academy trust Inspire Learning Partnership and benefits from the many opportunities being part of this Trust offers to all its staff and pupils. The school benefits from a fantastic large outdoor space, which enhances our teaching and learning journey.
We are situated on edge of Southampton with great access links to the motorway and all the surrounding areas.
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