Learning Cover Supervisor
Abbeyfield School, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN4 8BU2 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £24,224
What skills and experience we're looking for
About You:
As a Learning Cover Supervisor at Abbeyfield Secondary School, you will be an essential part of our commitment to delivering high-quality education. In the absence of regular teachers, you will ensure continuity in learning by maintaining a well-structured, engaging classroom environment.
Our ideal candidate will:
- Set high expectations for themselves and others, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Work collaboratively within a team, demonstrating strong cooperation and support for colleagues.
- Remain resilient, adaptable, and motivated, maintaining composure under pressure.
- Build strong, positive relationships with both students and staff, creating an encouraging and inclusive environment.
- Believe wholeheartedly in the potential of every student, ensuring they have the support to succeed.
Requirements:
To apply for the Learning Cover Supervisor opportunity, you must hold:
- GCSE English and Maths at Grade C and above or equivalent.
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
- Proven experience in classroom management within an education environment.
- Successful recent experience working as a classroom supervisor, working with pupils in either a class, group or 1:1 setting.
What the school offers its staff
About Our School:
At Abbeyfield School, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, aspirational, happy, and hard-working community. We strive to provide the best education, empowering pupils to become young adults with the best qualifications possible. Our mission is to educate, keep pupils safe, and promote their personal development. Pupils are expected to attend school daily, look smart, be ready to learn, and follow our routines: Right Place – Right Time – All the Time.
About the educational team:
At Abbeyfield Secondary School, our Cover Team plays a vital role in ensuring seamless learning experiences for our students. This dedicated and growing team provides essential continuity when regular teachers are absent, ensuring that every lesson maintains our high standards of education. Through high-quality CPD, our Cover Team is equipped to deliver engaging and effective learning, fostering a positive and structured classroom environment. Working closely with class teachers, they uphold our expectations and commitment to excellence, making a lasting impact on students’ progress and development.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 14,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:
CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
Essential Information:
Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.
All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.
The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Abbeyfield School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1376 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Abbeyfield School website
- Email address
- rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk
We are a popular and oversubscribed mixed secondary school, catering for children between the ages of 11 and 18 years located in Northampton.
The school boasts outstanding facilities in a modern well-kept stimulating environment.
Arranging a visit to Abbeyfield School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rosie.smithobrien@creativeeducationtrust.org.uk.
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