Cover Supervisor

4 days ago

South Norwood, United Kingdom Harris Academy South Norwood Full time
Main Areas of Responsibility

Your key duties will be:

  • To supervise lessons for absent teachers.
  • To allocate, explain and oversee cover work set.
  • To report to the relevant Cover Manager any deficiencies with cover work set to include quality or appropriateness of cover.
  • To offer general assistance to students in completing cover work in class.
  • To follow the academy’s in class behaviour management and referral systems.
  • To organize the days lessons efficiently in advance so that they run as smoothly as possible.
  • When not engaged in carrying out cover, to undertake administrative or student support duties at the direction of the line manager or the relevant Vice Principal.
  • Occasional supervision of post-16 students in their study base.
  • To take registers in all lessons and promptly report any in lesson absences.
  • To liaise directly with teachers to ensure cover lessons are delivered to a high quality.

Qualifications & Experience

We would like to hear from you if you have:

  • Qualifications to A Level standard or equivalent
  • Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements towards self-reliance that are appropriate to the age and development stage of the students
  • Basic knowledge of SEN and other learning barriers
  • Strong organisation and time management skills
  • Relevant experience in successfully supervising groups of children aged 11-16
  • Previous experience in a school or comparable large organisation
  • Understanding of a secondary school environment
  • Ability to provide classroom cover – within agreed parameters – in the absence of the class teacher
  • Ability to consistently and effectively implement agreed behaviour management strategies
  • Ability to use language and other communication skills that students can understand and relate to
  • Ability to establish positive relationships with students and empathise with their needs
  • Ability to demonstrate active listening skills
  • Ability to provide levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with learning tasks as appropriate to students’ needs, encouraging the students to stay on task
  • Ability to monitor the students’ response to the learning activities and, where appropriate, modify/adapt activities agreed with the teacher to achieve the intended learning outcomes

For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.

Professional Development & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

About Us

If you are looking for a diverse school with clear & effective behaviour policies & systems, a visible & supportive leadership team, useful but not onerous CPD, & frequent opportunities for promotion, then we are the school for you. We believe that our students need great outcomes to open doors that will help them make the best of their lives. Our students behave well, & so they achieve well. This is a product of our excellent behaviour systems. We have 6 non-teaching Heads of Year who support behaviour & welfare & run a fully centralised detention system. Exemplary behaviour can only be achieved through a highly visible Senior Leadership team, who are constantly touring the Academy. CPD is bespoke, first & foremost in the subject & grounded in tried & tested methods of effective teaching such as modelling, questioning, literacy, practice & consolidation. As part of our CPD offer, we have access to the world leading Harris NPQ training programmes for leaders. We believe the best approach to workload & wellbeing is to run a highly effective school with gives people purpose & avoids unnecessary work. Our sizeable department teams mean that despite our excellent retention rates, opportunities for promotion are frequent & exciting. I really hope that you'll be joining our team. Our four values of endeavour, kindness, respect & responsibility are at the heart of everything we do.

HASN is an extremely popular 11-19 academy. We have 180 students in each year group, a size that enables us to know what each of our students need. We deliver a broad & challenging curriculum to all our students in a calm & well-ordered environment. We have high expectations of all members of the school community. This is reflected in our consistently high student performance at GCSE, progression to post 16 study at our sixth form & then on to some of the best universities in the country. Last year 188 of our year 11 students chose to remain with us for the sixth form.

Boasting one of the most unique school buildings in the country Harris Academy, Clocktower perfectly blends classic British architecture with modern contemporary design. With our main building built newly in 2007 HASN is a modern Academy that boasts open plan corridors & skylight panels across the main building. The classic Stanley building dating back to 1907 provides charm & a history that compliments the new stylings of the main building & provides a reminder of the scholarly traditional values that a Harris Academy South Norwood education is built upon.

We are very fortunate to have excellent transport links to central London, some trains get to London Bridge in 11 minute, & just four minutes on the train from East Croydon. The Academy is a six-minute walk from Norwood Junction train station.

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