Cover Supervisor
Westlands School, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 1PFThis job expired on 15 October 2021 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 November 2021
Closing date
15 October 2021 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
1 October 2021
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 33.3 hours a week, Term Time plus 1 day staff development.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £19,603 to £21,088 (SAT 5)
Actual salary
- £14,862 to £15,988
Cover Supervisor job summary
Permanent, Term-Time position plus 1-day staff development.
33.3 hours a week.
The post holder will provide supervision of classes in the absence of the subject teacher or mentor. The job is not a teaching role, however, you will be required to have good classroom management skills, confident in your ability to work both supervised and unsupervised, excellent communication skills and able to adapt to a varied and changing routine.
The successful candidate would ideally have experience of providing support in the classroom, for example, as a Teaching Assistant or other similar roles. However, full training will be given and we urge applicants to demonstrate on their application form, previous personal and work experiences, as well as qualifications meet the criteria, as set out in the person’s specification provided in the recruitment pack.
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.
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About Westlands School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1784 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Westlands School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- david.gray@swale.at
- Phone number
- 01795 475477
Based on a tradition of excellent exam results, a wide and varied curriculum and two previous 'Outstanding' OFSTED judgements, the school is oversubscribed and has gained an enviable reputation in the wider community. Westlands School is a mixed, 11-18, non-selective school and is one of the most popular in the county.
Our curriculum provides impressive breadth, which we are proud of, this means that students can study academic courses alongside a wide choice of arts, technology and other vocational subjects. We have an enhanced range of extra-curricular activities, which we believe provides enrichment as well as developing students’ character.
Westlands is particularly proud of the fact that it focuses on students of all abilities making exceptional levels of progress, particularly in the key skills of literacy and numeracy.
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