Cover Supervisor
Full or Part time
Portsmouth
An inclusive secondary school based in Potsmouth are seeking an inspiring and hard-working cover supervisor.
The role is to cover lessons of students within the KS3 and KS4 bracket. Your main responsibility as a Cover Supervisor will be to manage the behaviour of the class and deliver the pre-set work. It is easy for students to become easily distracted when their continuity is broken, and the regular teacher is not in. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the Cover Supervisor to retain the student’s attention while keeping them task focused and maintaining their enthusiasm and enjoyment.
You will be able to work in many different departments within a friendly and high achieving school.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to become a teacher and wants some all-round experience which could lead to further prospects!
As a cover supervisor your role and responsibilities will include:
- Covering lessons in absence of a timetabled teacher across the curriculum
- Supervising all of the cover work across the school by communicating to the cover teachers what set work the students will need to complete
- Ensuring the required resources and equipment needed for the lesson are effectively delivered
- Providing assistance to the regular teaching staff within lessons
- Managing the behaviour of pupils whilst the students are undergoing work within lessons
We are currently looking for educators who:
- Are confident in classroom management, delivering adaptive and responsive teaching
- Comfortable covering across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
- Provide a positive environment for learning, developing powerful learners
- Confident covering a mixture of subjects with a subject specialism being a bonus
- Happy to support more challenging schools where behaviour may be present in the classroom
- Have an enhanced child only DBS on the Update Service (or willing to apply for one)
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All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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