Cover Supervisor
Ullswater Community College
Cumbria
- £27,711 - £28,624 pro rata
- New
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- Salary:
- Grade 7
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- February 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 January 2025
Job overview
Hours: full time (37 hours/week) term-time + 1 week + holiday allowance = a total of 44.6 weeks/year
Salary: Grade 7 (£27,711 to £28,624 pro rata); pro rata salary for 44.6 weeks is £23,767 to £24,330
Would you like to join us to work with our greatest asset – the wonderful students at UCC?
This Cover Supervisor vacancy is an exciting opportunity if you have experience working with young people or are interested in a teaching career but would first like to gain valuable experience in the classroom.
If successful, you will supervise classes while their teacher is absent, following the instructions left by the class teacher to facilitate high-quality learning. The positive working relationships you establish with students will enable you to encourage them to engage in the planned learning activities and ensure that they behave well in class.
Successful candidates will be:
- Passionate about enabling every child to achieve to their full potential
- Motivated, confident and keen to learn to inspire and challenge students to succeed
- Hold at least 5 higher-grade (grade C and above) GCSE passes, or equivalent qualifications, including English and mathematics.
A teaching qualification is not essential but you should have previous experience of working with children/young people in an educational setting.
About Ullswater Community College
This is an exciting time to join UCC – we have been approved in Phase 2 of the School Building Programme and are looking forward to new premises in the near future.
UCC is a friendly, supportive employer with a lot to offer its employees. Benefits include:
Starting holiday allowance of 25 days, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Membership of a staff wellbeing programme
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme – a defined benefit scheme with generous employer contributions
- Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme
- Free eye-test scheme
- A welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter and with a Staff Wellbeing group that is an integral part of the school culture
To apply
We welcome applications using either the TES application procedure or our own application form. This can be downloaded from our website, where full job details and comprehensive information about the school can also be found. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any queries (hr@ullswatercc.co.uk).
Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Monday 27 January 2025
UCC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Employment at UCC is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This means that certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; if they are disclosed, the school cannot take them into account.
We regret that only successful applicants will be contacted.
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About Ullswater Community College
Information for candidates
Ullswater Community College (UCC) is a happy school, where students and teachers expect to treat one another with respect.
Location: situated in Penrith – a Cumbrian market town on the fringes of the Lake District National Park – UCC is just a stone's throw from Ullswater, the second largest lake in the Lake District.
Caring and well liked: a popular and oversubscribed school, at UCC we're intensely ambitious for our students, care deeply about all aspects of their success and value everyone’s unique differences.
Vision: our vision is to ensure that UCC is ‘best in county’ in all we do. Ofsted rated UCC as "Good" in April 2023. Subsequently, we were recognised as "Best Secondary School in Cumbria" at the annual NewsQuest Educational awards in October 2023.
Community: our wider community is incredibly supportive of our efforts. They value the relationships we develop with them and the wide variety of extra-curricular activities and other opportunities we offer.
About UCC
UCC is a larger than average 11–18 comprehensive school serving the biggest catchment area in England, including both rural and small urban populations.
We have been recognised as one of the most improved in the county and continue to strive for further progress.
We are currently housed in several buildings of varying age but grouped closely together, with adjacent playing fields across a large site in the heart of Penrith. We have, however, recently been named in the school rebuilding programme and anticipate a significant investment or new build in the near future.
Our staff
UCC is a welcoming and supportive community where staff really do matter – our Staff Wellbeing group is an integral part of the school's culture. Our experienced, approachable senior leadership team has a clear vision for maintaining a responsive and professional working environment.
At UCC we invest heavily in staff development. We offer an outstanding programme of continuing professional development at all levels. Our excellent Early Careers Teacher (ECT) programme is supportive and professionally run.
We consider the well-being of colleagues in every development and encourage all to be fully involved in whole-school and departmental learning initiatives.
Our students
At UCC we pride ourselves on our fantastic students and on our curriculum offer, including for our sixth form.
The percentage of students with statements of special educational needs at UCC is around the national average and we are very proud to host a strategic facility for students who, in the main, have severe, profound or multiple learning difficulties.
The proportion of students who come from minority ethnic groups is very low at UCC, as is the percentage whose first language is not English, although this number has grown in recent years. The proportion eligible for free school meals is lower than the national average. Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, although the majority do not live in areas of significant social deprivation.
A large number of children use school transport; some travelling a considerable distance to reach school each day.
Our pastoral system
Our strong pastoral system is organised on a horizontal basis and most teachers are Form Tutors, in which important aspect of their work they are led and supported by Leaders of Achievement and Success.
These year-group teams deal with the academic progress, welfare and discipline of our students. Our Leaders of Achievement and Success maintain close working contact with parents and with external agencies, ensuring we do everything possible to enable all our students to succeed.
Join us
All those associated with UCC share my pride in being part of something bigger - something that will make a difference to all our students’ lives and set them on their own path to success irrespective of background or ability.
I hope this has provided you with some background and context – please visit the school website to find out even more about our wonderful school.
Stephen Gilby, Headteacher
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