Cover Supervisor
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3cce2d3f-7580-47cd-90c4-b767812c3253 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Essential:
• Knowledge and experience of working in an educational environment.
Desirable:
• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.
• Understanding of individual students’ requirements.
• Understanding of the practical application of school procedures which impact on student
supervision and behaviour management.
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential:
• Enthusiasm, commitment and flexibility.
• Positive disposition towards implementing the Trust’s educational vision.
• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.
What the school offers its staff
Birches Head Academy is part of the Frank Field Education Trust and we work collaboratively with others in our FFET family, allowing our students and staff many opportunities to develop. This is embodied in the FFET vision: ‘Social Justice through Excellence in Education’ and in the Academy motto: ‘Aspire to be More’. Birches Head Academy is looking to appoint a Cover Supervisor to join our dedicated staff, who will supervise classes in the absence of a teacher. The role will also include undertaking duties to support teaching and learning in subject areas, to be determined dependent on your area of expertise, supervision of students’ work and management of student behaviour.
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.
Essential:
• Knowledge and experience of working in an educational environment.
Desirable:
• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.
• Understanding of individual students’ requirements.
• Understanding of the practical application of school procedures which impact on student
supervision and behaviour management.
Key Skills and Attributes
Essential:
• Enthusiasm, commitment and flexibility.
• Positive disposition towards implementing the Trust’s educational vision.
• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.
What the school offers its staff
Birches Head Academy is part of the Frank Field Education Trust and we work collaboratively with others in our FFET family, allowing our students and staff many opportunities to develop. This is embodied in the FFET vision: ‘Social Justice through Excellence in Education’ and in the Academy motto: ‘Aspire to be More’. Birches Head Academy is looking to appoint a Cover Supervisor to join our dedicated staff, who will supervise classes in the absence of a teacher. The role will also include undertaking duties to support teaching and learning in subject areas, to be determined dependent on your area of expertise, supervision of students’ work and management of student behaviour.
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.