Cover Supervisor

Working at King’s Bolton

King's Leadership Academy, Bolton, is seeking a enthusiastic and hardworking Cover Supervisor.

King’s Leadership Academy Bolton is located close to the centre of Bolton with good access to both the M6 and M62. In January 2024 our staff and students moved into a new state of the art building.

Class sizes at the school are below average and every student has access to a personal computer tablet. Innovation is one of our strengths, which supports our modern approach to education alongside our commitment to the highest expectations.

King’s is a vibrant and diverse school which enjoys a strong sense of community amongst both staff and students.

This position is available due to the school expanding, we now wish to appoint an ambitious, highly motivated individual who loves their subject and shares our vision for making all students successful citizens in tomorrow’s world.

Key Benefits

• A trust which prioritises the well-being of its staff

• Flexible Working opportunities

• Highly competitive salaries

• Access to the Teacher Pension Scheme and Local Government schemes

• Generous holiday entitlement of 30 days for support staff

• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme which provides access to tools to help manage well-being along with services such as counselling and access to a child and dependant care helpline

• Good occupational sickness and maternity/paternity schemes

• A unique approach to Performance Leadership

• A commitment to personal and professional development with training and support for each staff member

• The opportunity to develop your career within and across the Trust

• Salary sacrifice scheme - Cycle to Work

Purpose of the role

To cover short-term absences of a teacher. On occasion, and by mutual agreement, a cover supervisor may be asked to cover classes for an extended period.

Key accountabilities (and specific duties / responsibilities)

Specific responsibilities:

• Supervise work that has been set in accordance with academy policy.

• Manage the behaviour of pupils whilst they are undertaking this work to ensure a constructive environment.

• Assist students with their work when appropriate.

• Respond to any questions from students about process and procedure.

• Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies according to the academy’s policies and procedures.

• Collect any completed work after the lesson and return it to the appropriate teacher.

• Report back as appropriate using the school’s agreed referral procedures on the behaviour of the pupils during the lesson, and any issues arising.

• Liaise with parents on a day to day basis re concerns in a lesson.

• Take an active role on Review Days: meeting students & parents: reviewing progress, attendance and behaviour; setting targets.

• Cover long term absence or vacant post if appropriate. In this instance the cover supervisor would, with the help of the Faculty Leader, plan and deliver lessons, mark students’ work and carry out student assessment. Attendance at Parents’ Evenings would then be a requirement.

• Cover supervisors are linked to a core subject so that they are involved in specific training and intervention.

• Mentor students when appropriate.

• Have a specific whole school role.

• When not needed for cover, provide additional support to teachers in classrooms or carry out administrative tasks.

• Participate in training as appropriate

Monitoring & Assessment

• With teachers evaluate students’ progress through a range of assessment activities.

• Assess students’ responses to learning tasks and where appropriate, modify methods to meet individual and/or group needs.

• Monitor students’ participation and progress and provide constructive feedbackto students in relation to their progress and achievement.

• Assist in maintaining and analysing records of students’ progress.

• Contribute to programmes of observation and assessment as planned by the teacher and provide reports, evaluations and other information to assist in the provision of appropriate support for specific students.

• Support the teaching staff with reporting students’ progress and achievements at parents’ meetings which are usually held outside academy hours (either through attendance at targeted evenings or input to parents’ consultation evenings.

Mentoring, Supervision & Development

• Assist teachers in offering mentoring support and guidance to other teaching assistants undertaking formal training.

• Support and guide other less experienced teaching assistants’ work in the classroom when required and lead training for other teaching assistants.

• Contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the academy by attending relevant meetings and contributing to the development of policies and procedures within the school. Also participate in staff meetings and training days/events as requested.

Behavioural & Pastoral

• Recognise and challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation and any form of abuse of equal opportunities, ensuring compliance with relevant academy policies and procedures and making sure the individual/s involved understand it is unacceptable.

• Understand and implement academy child protection/ safeguarding procedures and comply with legal responsibilities.

• Assist in maintaining good discipline of students throughout the academy and escort and supervise students on planned visits and journeys as appropriate.

• Foster and maintain constructive and supportive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging appropriate information, facilitating their work for their child’s attendance, access and learning, and supporting home to college and community links.

• Assist teachers by, where appropriate, receiving instructions directly from professional or specialist support staff involved in the students’ education. These may include social workers, health visitors, language support staff, speech therapists and educational psychologists.

Other

• The postholder is expected to carry out such other duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Principal.

• The duties of this post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or level of responsibility entailed.