Cover Supervisor

The Deepings School, Peterborough, Lincolnshire, PE6 8NF

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  8 December 2023 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 September 2023

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: No, visa sponsorship not available
• Working pattern:
  • Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £16,850.00 - £17,791.00 Annually (Actual)

Cover Supervisor job summary

Job details

We are looking for a Cover Supervisor to join the team and support the work of the school when teachers are absent due to planned or unplanned absence. The role involves taking sole charge of a full class of students, managing their behaviour and keeping them on task to complete the work set by the absent teacher.

Cover Supervisor duties will include:

• Starting the lesson, settling the students and allocating the set work
• Supervising work that has been set, keeping students focussed on their work and ensuring a constructive environment
• Managing student behaviour in line with school policy
• Responding to student queries
• Collecting completed work and returning it to the teacher
• Covering registration and tutor time for absent tutors

During periods of low cover requirements, the postholder will be directed to other teaching and learning activities. This will include exam invigilation, and acting as a reader or scribe during examinations for students with special access requirements. Other activities may be supporting students in the classroom, administrative tasks, supporting SEND students etc.

The job description and person specification provide further information. Formal teaching qualifications are not required but this post may suit someone considering a career in teaching.

Full time or part time. The working pattern will be 08:20 to 15:30 Monday to Friday a total of 33.33 hours per week for 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 days). Applications for part time working are welcomed but applicants must be able to work 3 or more full days 08:20 to 15:30.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.

We will carry out an online check on all shortlisted applicants.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

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About The Deepings School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1344 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Deepings School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-deepings-school-peterborough (opens in new tab)

A large, mixed 11-18 comprehensive school located in South Lincolnshire. part of Anthem Schools Trust.

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