Lead Cover Supervisor

Job Title: Lead Cover Supervisor

Location: Thorns Collegiate Academy

Hours: 37 hours per week, term time + training days

Salary: Band E SCP 18-25 £30,559 – £35,235 per annum pro rata (£27,385 - £31,847 per annum)

Main Responsibilities

1. To be responsible for the day to day management of daily staff cover for teachers and other support staff as required by the Principal/SLT Line Manager, to ensure classes/lessons are covered when teachers are absent from school.
2. To supervise whole classes during the short-term and long-term absence of teachers.
3. To line-manage the Cover Supervisor team.
4. To secure supply staff as/when required.

Duties and responsibilities: Cover Management

• Organise required cover for absent teaching staff on a daily basis, including  arranging for high quality cover of supply staff from agencies when required and ensuring a process for meeting and greeting supply teachers, ensuring the school has their clearance details.
• Provide supply teachers with adequate support/training on the day, including the school’s behaviour management practice and making sure they are aware of the school’s safeguarding practice including how and to who to report a concern.
• Organise cover staff effectively to minimise the impact of absence on teaching staff, thereby improving teaching and learning within the school.
• Ensure that all materials necessary to enable the smooth running of a cover lesson are provided by 8.15 each morning, including cover sheets, tutor registration sheets, cover work, seating plans, stationery and other instructions, as appropriate.
• To produce a termly cover analysis report for the Principal.
• Liaise with Subject Leaders and Heads of Year regarding student behaviour and cover work issues raised by cover supervisors or supply teachers.
• Oversee induction of newly appointed Cover supervisors and Supply staff, ensure they are fully briefed on school policies and procedures, health & safety factors and principles of classroom & behaviour management.
• Produce and arrange distribution of the daily cover sheet.
• To undertake the role of cover supervisor.
• To manage all room changes daily.
• Deal with cover arrangements for last minute emergencies e.g. a member of  staff being taken ill.
• Authorise timesheets for external teachers and approve the invoices.
• Help to plan cover for larger scale events e.g. sports day, activities day
• To keep the SLT Link/Principal appraised at all times of any concerns regarding daily cover or supply personnel.

Closing date: Sunday 15th December 2024.

For further information and an application form, please visit:

https://careers.shirelandcat.net/Department/Non-teaching