Cover Supervisor

Simon Balle All-Through School, Hertford, Hertfordshire, SG13 8AJ

16 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  13 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,409.00 - £28,163.00 Annually (FTE) H5

Cover Supervisor job summary

Creating tomorrow’s citizens today

We are seeking an enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join our supportive and creative team, dedicated to the teaching and learning of all students. We are able to offer internal training opportunities so previous experience is not essential. Cover Supervisors are required to facilitate lessons where teaching staff have set work for students.

This role will offer you the ideal opportunity to develop your classroom management skills and experience and you will also have the opportunity to get involved in many other aspects of school life. If you are thinking about becoming a teacher, this role will give you invaluable skills and we will fully support your development.

The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, be flexible, resilient and will be comfortable liaising with teaching staff, support staff and students in a professional and supportive manner.

The role requires someone who has patience, energy, enthusiasm and imagination, who wants to make a positive contribution to the lives of our young people. Previous experience working with 11-18 year olds within a school environment would be desirable, but not essential.

In return we can offer:

Health

GP helpline - appointments 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

• Physiotherapy - personalised treatment plans delivered face to face or on the telephone
• Weight management - a 12 week programme in partnership with Slimming World
• SAS Gym app - access to exercise programmes
• Use of school pool and gym facilities
• Weekly staff-run swimming and fitness classes

Wellbeing

• Individual counselling and therapy sessions
• Mindfulness and stress management - virtual programmes and sessions, Feeling Good app to improve mental health and performance in work and social settings
  
• Wellbeing telephone support for:
  
• Menopause
  
• Bereavement
• Cancer and chronic illness
• Men's health and mental wellbeing
• Maternity support
  
• A dedicated staff wellbeing committee and regular staff social events
  

Financial

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme - coming soon
• - Cycle to work scheme - coming soon
• Pension scheme - all staff will automatically be enrolled in a pension scheme with either the Teachers' Pension Service or the Local Government Pension Scheme.
  
• Flexible working - to support our staff we offer flexible working opportunities; job share arrangements and part-time working wherever possible.
  
• Free car parking
  
• Free eye tests for display screen equipment users
  

Professional

• Terms and conditions - we offer terms and conditions in line with the School Teacher's Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), the Burgundy Book (for Teachers) and Hertfordshire's Future Workforce (for Support Staff)
  
• A Commitment to reducing staff workload
• A comprehensive CPD programme with fantastic staff feedback
  

Apply now if you have what it takes to make a difference!

Candidates are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Simon Balle All-through School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants for this post must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including reference checks with previous employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We are committed to a policy of openness and equality of opportunity in the employment of staff. We will not condone discrimination on the grounds of the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. It is our central responsibility to ensure that every individual that we come into contact with is treated with dignity and respect.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Simon Balle All-Through School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 18
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 1561 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Simon Balle All-Through School website (opens in new tab)
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