Cover Supervisor
St Margaret's Church of England Academy, Liverpool, Merseyside, L17 6AB29 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
20 January 2025 at 12am (midnight)
Date listed
20 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 25119.00 - 28770.00
Cover Supervisor job summary
Role: Cover Supervisor
Grade: 4
Contract: Permanent
Reports to: Deputy Headteacher
Job Focus
The Academy of St. Margaret’s are seeking an enthusiastic and diligent Cover Supervisor to join the Academy on a permanent basis. This role will support the Academy in its day-to-day operations; ensuring adequate and efficient cover is provided in the absence of teaching and support staff. In this role, you will provide supervision to whole classes during short-term absence of teachers; maintaining standards of students’ behaviour in the classroom, ensuring that students engage in learning activities as directed by teachers.
This is an exciting time to join the Academy as we are part of the All Saints Multi Academy Trust. The Trust is committed to improving, accelerating and enabling ambitious life goals amongst all young people in their academies.
Core Responsibilities & Tasks
- The delivery of internal cover in the absence of teaching staff.
- Ensure suitable cover material has been provided for the lesson and, where no work is provided or where work is below an agreed standard, to source suitable work from the relevant head of department.
- Collaborate with teachers and heads of department to plan cover work for an absence known in advance.
- Supporting the deputy headteacher in scheduling the daily cover provision, ensuring that a ‘best fit’ model is used to ensure maximum efficiency of the agency staff supporting internal cover.
- Ensuring the adequate and efficient provision of cover for the absence of teaching and support staff and special events where extra cover supervision may be required (e.g., job interviews, safeguarding visitors on site).
- Give clear instructions for the work provided by the teacher and respond to questions and requests from students.
- Ensure the learning outcomes for lessons are achieved and provide feedback to the class teacher.
- Establish a bank of suitable cover work for use in subjects at the appropriate level, with the agreement of the relevant heads of department.
- Liaison with subject leaders and subject teachers.
- Undertaking classroom support if covering duties are not required.
Corporate Responsibilities
- The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- To pursue and promote the achievement and integration of diversity and equality of opportunity throughout the Academy’s activities.
- To plan, monitor and review health and safety within areas of personal control.
- To participate in the Academy’s Appraisal process and engage in continuous professional development and networking to ensure that professional skills and knowledge are up to date
- To maintain high professional standards of attendance, punctuality, appearance, conduct and positive, courteous relations with students, parents and colleagues.
Additional Notes
- The job purpose and key statements remain indicative and by no means exclusive. Given the evolving needs of the Trust, flexibility among staff is very important. All staff may be required to undertake other such reasonable duties as may be required from time to time in line with the grade of their post.
- An Enhanced DBS Check will be requested on successful application to a position at the Trust.
- The Trust operates a non-smoking 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 St Margaret's Church of England Academy
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 995 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
“A safe and friendly place to learn”: Ofsted, quoting students, 2019; “The distinctiveness and effectiveness of St Margaret’s as a Church of England school are outstanding”: SIAMS, 2017.
Located in the southern suburbs of Liverpool, St Margaret’s is an oversubscribed 11-18 Church of England boys’ converter Academy with a large mixed Sixth Form. The school enjoys an enviable reputation; attainment is consistently above national averages
St Margaret’s is unequivocally committed to the highest standards of safeguarding. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
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