Cover Teacher

Cornwallis Academy, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 4HX

29 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 June 2024 at 12am (midnight)

• Date listed

  19 April 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,598-£32,134

Cover Teacher job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a talented and ambitious Cover Teacher to join our school, with the ability to provide classroom cover for a range of curriculum subjects and across a range of key stages. This role is a fantastic opportunity for any candidate interested in starting a career in teaching, or it could provide a great opportunity for a professional wanting to work as a Cover Teacher in an educational environment, surrounded by the support of our wider education team. Alongside providing classroom cover for absent colleagues both planned and emergency, there will be an element of lesson planning and marking associated with the role, as well as the opportunity for you to take part in relevant teaching CPD and training. Subject specialist support will also be provided.
The successful candidate will have:
• An aspiration to teach.
• Recent and relevant experience that can be applied to the role.
• The ability to successfully motivate and inspire students.  
• Dedication to their own professional development.
• The desire to maintain and develop a high-quality school environment and profile and act as a role model by their professional conduct and disposition.
We will offer you:
• A vibrant and exciting place to work.
• Support and training in gaining the relevant qualifications to become a qualified teacher (https://fstcareers.co.uk/routes-into-teaching/)
• A Trust that fosters a positive culture towards flexible working and work life balance.
• A Trust that promotes a wellbeing culture, with full access to our Employee Assistance Programme, 24/7.
• An excellent CPD programme, with opportunities for action research and gaining nationally accredited qualifications.
• The support of a Trust that currently runs two secondary schools, a primary school, and a term time only Nursery for children aged 3 months to 4 years.
• An opportunity to join various schemes such as the Benenden corporate healthcare scheme.
Only applications submitted by the school application process will be considered, we are unable to accept CVs.
Future Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the person specification and will be required to apply for a DBS disclosure. We particularly welcome applicants from under- represented groups including those based on ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

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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Visas cannot be sponsored.

About Cornwallis Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1337 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Cornwallis Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cornwallis-academy (opens in new tab)

Cornwallis Academy is a ‘Good’ school on the outskirts of Loose, Maidstone with over 1300 students on roll aged 11 to 18. Cornwallis’ aim is to provide all students with the best educational provision.



It is a fully inclusive school, enabling all students to be the best they can be by having ‘ambitions for all’. Believing all students should be given every opportunity to achieve not only academically but also personally.



In line with the Cornwallis ‘SMILE’ ethos, the aim is to motivate, inspire, excite and engage all students so that they can be successful in their learning. Placing students’ wellbeing at the heart of everything. A strong community ethos permeates, throughout the school, focusing on learning and progress as well as the whole child.

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