3 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    14 October 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    30 September 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 36 hours per week/39 weeks per year (Term time + 5 Inset Days)

Contract type

Fixed term - until 31 August 2025 with potential to extend

Pay scale

competitive based on experience

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to provide support to both our High School and Primary School working with colleagues who are committed to delivering outstanding lessons across all key stages.

This a term-time position working 36 hours per week/39 weeks per year (Term time + 5 Inset Days). The appointment is for a fixed-term period initially until 31 August 2025 with potential to extend.

Salary negotiable dependent upon calibre and experience.

The successful candidate will provide non-teaching supervision for absent teachers and carry out general administrative tasks at other times. It is essential that the candidate demonstrates an ability to work with a range of people at all levels including young people.

Key responsibilities:

  • Cover duties as required

  • Supervising pupils in cover lessons, maintain good order and safety and ensuring high quality learning

  • Providing feedback to Department Heads on the lesson as appropriate

  • Management of the inclusions process, including supervising pupils, setting their objectives and work for the day and reviewing the impact of the inclusion at the end of the day

  • Providing office and departmental administrative support when not covering lessons or inclusions

  • Accompanying pupils on school trips

  • Undertaking any other duties as requested, which are commensurate with the grading and responsibilities of the post

You will have:

  • A love for working with and supporting young people

  • An empathy with, and be fully supportive of our Catholic identity and mission, if not a practising Catholic

  • A positive and proactive attitude to life and work

  • Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, and manage your own workload

  • Excellent communication skills, being able to competently deal with all of our stakeholders

  • Confidence, resilience and enthusiasm

  • A friendly, approachable demeanour with an adaptable and flexible outlook

  • Excellent time-keeping and a responsible, reliable and mature attitude towards work

  • A willingness to learn and develop

  • At least 5 GCSE grades, including English and Maths

Desirable: Experience working as a teacher or in a similar role with young people. This role would suit someone that has taught previously or has an interest in teaching as a future career.

What the school offers its staff

  • A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment

  • Access to regular CPD sessions, focusing on learning and teaching and subject scholarship

  • Opportunities provided by being part of the Ascension Catholic Academy Trust

  • A range of employee benefits including Cycle to Work Scheme

  • Teacher/Local Government pension scheme

  • Cash for colleagues - Earn money for friends you recommend

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@srrcc.org.uk

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About St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
View all Secondaryjobs
School size
1113 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
0208 325 4630

St Richard Reynolds Catholic College is a vibrant community consisting of a federation of two Outstanding schools: SRR Catholic Primary School and SRR Catholic High School which includes a Sixth Form.

We were inspected by Ofsted in February 2024 and the team noted that: This is an exceptional school where pupils flourish. The school has the highest expectations for what pupils can achieve. Pupils in the school, including in the popular sixth form, rise to these expectations at every opportunity. Pupils take great pride in their school, and their behaviour is impeccable. They work hard in lessons and thrive when challenged’.

Our community is a place where our young people come first, are loved, listened to, challenged and inspired.

The College is part of the Ascension Catholic Academy Trust.

Arranging a visit to St Richard Reynolds Catholic High School

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

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