Junior School Cover Teacher

Who are Habs?

We are a diverse community, and we nurture a global perspective and a deep sense of responsibility for the world in which our pupils will lead and succeed. Our broad curriculum and co-curricular provision prepare pupils for success wherever their passion may take them. Ambition, Curiosity, Courage, and Community are the core beliefs that we stand for here at Habs.

Join our team and unlock your potential!

Fixed term role from September 2024. 

Junior teachers participate fully in school life, taking full responsibility for the academic progress and pastoral care of the pupils within their class. Teachers are accountable to the Head of the Junior School, via delegated line management to the Phase Leader or another appropriate member of staff, for teaching duties and responsibilities, and for teaching tasks. Teachers interact on a professional level with colleagues and seek to establish and maintain productive relationships with them, to promote mutual understanding of the curriculum, with the aim of improving the quality of teaching and learning in the school.

The Role 

Teaching and Learning

• cover lessons for absent colleagues, working across the full age range, ensuring continuity of curriculum coverage and maintain standards and expectations of teaching and learning.
• work with other teachers in the school to implement short to medium term plans, working from schemes of work and ensuring balanced coverage of the curriculum which stretches pupils’ thinking.
• plan with and oversee the work of Learning Support Assistants where relevant in order that continuous pastoral care and academic progress of pupils is supported appropriately.
• contribute to the monitoring, evaluation, and review of the effect of policies and plans, establishing clear targets for improving and sustaining pupil development.
• establish, maintain, and develop appropriate and stimulating resources for teaching and learning, including ICT.
• support colleagues to create a motivating, exciting and child-centred classroom, through attractive display of the pupils’ work, use of books, artefacts etc.

Assessment and Reporting

• contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and review of progress and achievement in pupils taught, using assessment, recording and updating systems, identifying clear targets for improvement for pupils of all abilities.
• establish and maintain a good rapport with parents by communicating fully with them, both informally and formally, through ad-hoc communications, parents’ evenings, and written reports.
• attend or lead events such as induction or curriculum evenings, to improve communication between school and home.
• liaise with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure all are always kept well informed.

Professional Development

• attend INSET courses as required, attend staff meetings, contribute to whole School curricular review and development and to a shared vision for the school.
• keep updated on the National Curriculum and abreast of current educational thinking through wider reading and personal research, etc.

Extra-curricular

• attend concerts, plays, parents’ evenings, staff meetings and departmental meetings and take part in any after school activities, such as clubs, as required.
• participate in a lunchtime supervision rota and willingly undertake a part in any school duties such as lunch, break time and after school supervision.
• arrange visitors and book and accompany excursions and residential trips, following procedures laid down in the staff handbook.
• any other reasonable and related activities at the discretion of the Head of the Prep & Pre-Prep School or Headmaster.

Pastoral Care

• establish and develop a relationship with the pupils, ensuring their social, emotional, spiritual and moral wellbeing.
• be concerned with the general welfare of the pupils and observe all safety regulations and procedures.
• be responsible for seeing that the pupils are registered, as required.

Personal Specification

Qualifications

Essential                                   

• QTS, PGCE or equivalent                      
• Good honours degree in a relevant subject        
• Evidence of further qualifications or training

Skills                               

• Ability to teach all year groups Reception to Year 6
• Passion for teaching and learning
• Excellent understanding of methods to extend and challenge pupils at all stages of their learning
• Experience of offering good pastoral support
• Ability to work well within a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent organisational skills

Qualities

• Inspiring, creative and highly able educator
• An understanding of the value of independent learning
• Valuing a growth mindset, risk-taking and resilience in pupils’ learning and personal and social development
• Readiness to support extra-curricular activities within and outside department, after school and at other times
• Good organisation and planning
• Flexibility and resilience
• Ability to inspire and motivate

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The Haberdashers’ Boys’ and Girls' Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.