Cover Supervisor

Kingsway Primary School, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 3BD

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  August 2025

• Closing date

  3 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  26 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 29 hours per week, term time.
• Contract type: Fixed term - 1 year in the first instance
• Actual salary: £17,026 - £17,861

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ 3 in Supporting Teaching and Learning, or equivalent
• Level 2 qualifications in maths/numeracy and English/literacy, or able to demonstrate competency in literacy and numeracy equivalent to level 2.

Desirable

Able to demonstrate the ability to meet the STL Level 3 National Occupational Standards relevant to this post.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with children in a formal setting without immediate supervision

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of child protection and health and safety procedures

Skills/Attributes

Essential

• Ability and willingness to undertake professional development
• Good interpersonal skills
• Empathy with children and young people
• Ability to effectively manage pupil behaviour in accordance with school policy and procedure
• Ability to use own initiative to work flexibly and respond positively to a range of situations

Ability to work effectively as part of a team

General Circumstances

Essential

• Attendance - evidence of regular attendance at work

An understanding of, and commitment to, Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to strategic work and day-to-day situations

Factors not already covered

Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act

The school will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any member of staff who develops a disabling condition.

What the school offers its staff

Putting your trust in our Trust

We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young pupils. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.

Coaching

Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.

Personal Improvement Plan

versus Performance Management

Instead of the usual performance management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.

Health and Wellbeing Strategies

Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:

• providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
• recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
• providing a supportive workplace culture where healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged

We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme. Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.

Presumed Professionalism

We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young pupils and each other.We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.

Development of Professional Capital and Excellence

As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’.We pride ourselves on this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young pupils.

Quite simply, our aim is to employ pupils who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.

Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:

• The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
• The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
• The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
• The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
• Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, NQT, aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.

Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.

Across the Trust we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

Great access to progression and leadership responsibility

Further evidence of our investment in ‘home grown talent’ is that 86% of our TLR holders have been internal appointments. We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust.

Collaboration across all schools

We are developing relationships across our Trust to enable collaboration to support learning and teaching outcomes. In addition, we are able to offer a joint CPD programme to draw upon expertise across the Trust. Staff work and meet regularly in teams across schools in the Trust and we hold an annual Strategic Planning Day, where each member of the Trust work together.

Sabbatical and flexible working policies

We have developed a unique sabbatical policy to support staff to develop their interests. For some, this has been to develop professionally, whilst others have taken this time to experience travel with their family. See our policy for further details.

Flexible working arrangements are also promoted across the Trust where possible, to enable our staff to manage their work life and family commitments.

Strong Induction Process

It is important to us that every member of staff has the right start to working in our Trust. The importance of a good induction is invaluable for new starters irrespective of previous experience. To support this, we have a New Staff Induction Day before the start of term, which enables colleagues to get a real understanding of what the school is about and what it means to be part of the Trust. This day also prepares new staff for our training (conference) days at the beginning of the Autumn term. In addition to this ALL staff are invited to visit a series of lessons across the school year.

ECT Programme

We offer early career teachers a robust, supportive and bespoke training programme which will enable you to develop into an outstanding teacher.

Continued ECT and RQT support

Where possible we try to ensure that ECTs and third year teachers have reduced teaching loads to allow them more opportunities for CPD throughout the school week. This also allows for peer to peer observations and additional coaching to take place to develop their practice.

Attendance of staff

Our staff are committed to their roles and ensure that students are supported to maximise their outcomes. Levels of attendance are exceptionally high across all staff and well above national averages in the education sector and beyond.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Kingsway Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 315 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kingsway Primary School website
• Email address: apearce@kingsway.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kingsway-primary-school

The Burrow @ Kingsway is a small specialist SEMH provision located within The Winstanley School and Kingsway Primary School, with a genuine mainstream collaboration, partnership and learning experiences for every young person.

The Burrow @ Kingsway Primary School is a lovely place to work. It is a small school setting in the middle of Kingsway North in Braunstone Town where children learn, play and grow. Our children love coming to The Burrow and feel happy and safe when they are there. As a small provision each child receives a highly personalised education, building positive relationships with the adults that they work with. Our Burrow team are committed to making a positive difference to the lives of the children theywork with and go above and beyond to ensure that every day is creative and engaging.

Arranging a visit to Kingsway Primary School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email apearce@kingsway.org.uk.

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