Cover Supervisor

Salary: Grade 5 point Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Scale £25,584 to £27269 (actual pro-rata £22,075 to £24,061)

Start Date: January 2025  

Contract Type: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time plus 5 inset days) Monday to Thursday 0800 – 1600, Friday 0800 - 1530 (part time would be considered)

Contract Term: Permanent

Closing Date:  Monday 6th January 2025 at 12 noon

Interview Date: w/c Monday 13th January 2025 (date to be confirmed)

Wilmslow High School

•        School age range: 11-18
•        Number on roll: approx. 2,200 (including 500 sixth form)

We are looking to appoint a Cover Supervisor who is passionate about ensuring our students receive the very highest standard of education every day. You will work across all curriculum areas to:

•         Supervise students who are undertaking work that has been set in accordance with the school policy so that teaching and learning continues.
•         Promote good behaviour of students through setting high expectations and actively managing the behaviour of students whilst they are undertaking their work to ensure a purposeful, positive and disciplined environment.
•         Manage the behaviour of students whilst they are undertaking their work to ensure a purposeful and disciplined environment.
•         Know and implement school systems and procedures with regard to classroom routines to ensure that teaching and learning continue.
•         Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies in accordance with the school’s policies and procedures to ensure that students and colleague safety is assured.

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students every day. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process. 

If invited for interview, you will be:

• asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
• subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.

If successful, you will be subject to:

• an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.

Current or previous employers will be contacted, and information requested will include:

• disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
• whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.