Cover Supervisor

Internal and External applicants welcome to apply!

The Role:

A cover supervisor helps to create a structured environment for pupils to complete curriculum activities in the absence of their teacher. This is usually a short-term absence, with the teacher expected to pick up where the cover supervisor has left off.

Key Tasks:

• Supervising pupils, ensuring they are engaged in the classwork

• Encouraging pupils to interact

• Helping pupils to become more independent in their learning

• Establishing trust with pupils, interacting with them according to individual needs

• Assisting pupils with tasks as needed

• Creating a safe, positive, supportive classroom environment

• Promoting good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policies, encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their behaviour

• Collecting completed work and returning it to the teacher

• Assisting with the supervision of pupils before and after school and at break times

• Providing feedback to teachers on pupil’s achievement, progress, and if any problems

About You:

• An ability to communicate effectively with younger people, as well as deal with their basic emotional and practical needs

• Having some knowledge or training in child development and learning

• Being enthusiastic, dedicated and helpful

• Being able to deal with difficult pupil behaviour

Benefits:

• Access to retail discounts, and technology schemes

• Access to Cycle to Work

• 24/7 access to a free Employee Assistance Programme to provide confidential advice and guidance on any personal and/or work-related matter.

• Free Mindfulness training with a qualified and experienced professional

• An open and collaborative working environment, not just within your academy but also across the Trust where innovation is encouraged.

• Discounted gym membership

• Commitment to exploring ways to reduce email traffic and confine email replies to office hours - while recognising our employee’s preferences for when they work

• Commitment to continuously review workload issues and explore options for simpler, less onerous methods and processes.

Nene Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment. All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search as part of our due diligence process.

Any offer of employment will be subject to DBS and Right to Work checks.

We look forward to your response.

The Trust will endeavour to make any necessary reasonable adjustments to the job and the working environment to enable access to employment opportunities for disabled job applicants or continued employment for any employee who develops a disabling condition.

*Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert before the closing date stated*