Cover Supervisor
Redden Court School, Romford, Essex, RM3 0TS22 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
13 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Cover Supervisor
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,594.00 - £25,670.00 Annually (FTE)
Cover Supervisor job summary
The role is to manage individuals, groups or whole classes either on their own or in the presence of teaching staff and/or Student Development support staff.
The Cover Supervisor will primarily be responsible for the maintenance of good order and focused activity. This requires behaviour management and interpersonal skills.
Roles and Responsibilities:-To establish and maintain a purposeful, positive working atmosphere which supports student progress
To communicate and consult with parents of students as necessary, including telephone calls, emails and parental meetings
To act as a cover teacher providing professional guidance to classes, setting high expectations of conduct and behaviour and monitoring student progress within the lesson and during form time and assemblies.
Invigilate and supervise school examinations, tests and assessments.
Supervise students on or off school premises in the context of trips, visits, concerts, assemblies
Complete registers and/or use the school’s attendance recording systems
Work within the values, culture and ethos, equality and diversity of the school
Ensure compliance with Health and Safety law and school procedures, minimising any health and safety risk and security of the working environment
As an employee you will have access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and access to the Schools Medicash and Health Assured Employee Programme.
If you wish to have an informal discussion about the post before applying please feel free to contact Miss T. Greaves, Assistant Headteacher on 01708 342293 or by emailing tgreaves@reddencourtcloud.co.uk. Our last Ofsted report can be found here
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note the use of AI is strictly forbidden during the application/interview process
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 Redden Court School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1048 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Redden Court School website
We pride ourselves on being a fully comprehensive school placed at the heart of the community. We want all of our students to be happy, ambitious and to achieve results that reflect their true potential.
Our school has served the local community of Harold Wood for many years, providing a high quality education to the students of this area.
Our vision is focused on a ‘Commitment to Success for All’ and high levels of aspiration for every member of our community. The school is forward thinking and progressive. We seek to achieve the very best for all of our students through the use of a rich variety of educational approaches.
We have caring staff who are dedicated to ensuring the students are successful in every aspect of their learning.
Redden Court is the founding school in the Success for All Educational Trust and is recognised as one of the highest performing mixed comprehensive schools in Havering.
We are an accredited ‘Thinking School’ and have very close links with the Cognitive Education Development Unit at the University of Exeter. Metacognition and the development of thinking skills is at the heart of our teaching and learning in the school as we believe it plays an important part in developing resilient and independent learners.
We also have very strong links with the Havering Teacher Training Programme, we are a senior partner in the Empower Teaching Alliance and we are recognised as a Leading Edge School by the SSAT. The school has also been accredited with All Together (Anti Bullying), Place2Be (Student Mental Health), SEND Exceptional Outcomes Award, The Quality in Careers Standards, Healthy Schools Gold Award and Gold Travel Ambassadors Award.
We are a growing community Trust with inclusion at the heart of our ethos and require leaders who will bring this vision to life.
These are exciting times for Redden Court School with so much change and challenge in the future.
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