Cover Supervisor

Coombe Girls’ School and Sixth Form is a comprehensive girls’ state secondary school, with a co-educational Sixth Form. The school is heavily oversubscribed and is committed to providing an excellent education to children in the local area. We are proud of the progress our students make from their starting points during their time with us: in 2022 - 2023 the school’s Progress 8 score was +0.52 and 40% of GCSE entries were graded 7 to 9 last year. The school is proud to be part of the Coombe Academy Trust. 

Our school is vibrant and diverse, serving the local area of New Malden. We value every individual and the rich wealth of experience, knowledge, values and beliefs they bring to our school. The experience and talent you will bring to our school will ensure we continue to provide the best education for our students and further increase the breadth of opportunity for the next generation. We particularly encourage applications from colleagues in underrepresented groups.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, versatile and well organised person to oversee pupil study when a teacher is unavailable due to courses, trips, sickness or other absence. The successful candidate should have a good sense of discipline and a non-confrontational manner. Cover supervisors work with pupils but are not required to do preparation, planning or marking. You will also be required to undertake some clerical duties as and when necessary. Educated to a degree level would be desirable but not essential.

This role would be ideal for someone looking to gain experience before embarking on teacher training.

This role is for 31 hours a week, term time only.

We will offer you:

• An exciting opportunity in a vibrant school
• A guaranteed CPD plan tailored to individual requirements including financial support for ‘M’ Level study.  
• Access to an Employee Wellbeing Programme including counselling and mentoring
• Employee benefits such as Cycle Scheme, Pension Schemes and access to CSSC member benefits scheme
• Touch screen chromebooks with G Suite education embedded throughout
• Free onsite Parking
• An enthusiastic Staff Association offering opportunities for staff sport and socialising
• Excellent location with direct rail links to London Waterloo (25 mins) and a frequent bus service to Kingston upon Thames

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be able to work effectively and constructively as a member of a team
• Be well organised and efficient, demonstrating an ability to use their initiative and work unsupervised.
• Have the ability to work in a busy environment, be able to multi-task and perform well under pressure.
• Good ICT skills to support learning and complete administrative tasks.
• The ability and willingness to learn new skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• The confidence to assist students as well as staff to complete work.

The successful applicant will be required to undertake online checks and an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. We are fully committed to protecting our pupils and staff and therefore have a rigorous and robust recruitment process that gathers evidence about a candidate’s suitability to work with children and have proactive safeguarding procedures in place.

We encourage early applications as we may close this vacancy at any time should the right candidate be found.