Classroom Cover Supervisor

The Ecclesbourne School is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our support staff team as a Classroom Cover Supervisor. We ask that you are passionate about the power of education to improve the life chances of young people and are a committed team player. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is thinking of training as a teacher and someone who is keen to contribute to our students’ success.

Our ideal candidates will:

• Have good organisational skills, patience, flexibility, creativity and an ability to build relationships with young people
• Have previous experience of working in a school
• Good communication skills

You will have the opportunity to:

• Become part of a team of like-minded individuals
• Work with colleagues who are friendly, welcoming and committed to ensuring every student receives a first-rate teaching and learning experience 
• Receive full support for training and professional development

This is a five days per week, term-time position and the successful candidate will work for 32.5 hours per week, for 39 weeks per year, which includes term-time and whole school closure days. This will be a fixed-term appointment for the full academic year from September 2024 until August 2025 and working hours will be on each Monday to Friday during term-time from 8.30am to 4.00pm, with a 30-minute break each day. Salary NJC Point 12 (£26,421 per annum); actual pro-rated salary is £19,673 per annum. Please note that there is a pay award pending from April 2024.

We offer immediate membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent opportunities for professional development and a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Continuity of service will be recognised for local government employees. Children of members of staff, with a minimum of two years’ service at the school at the time of application, are included in our admissions criteria.

The school motto of ‘Integrity. Tenacity. Service.’ is at the core of school life. To learn more about our school please visit our website. If you share our ethos, we look forward to hearing from you.

The reward for working at Ecclesbourne is more than financial and we give back to our staff in terms of wellbeing, training and support.

When applying please outline how your previous experience has prepared you for this role and what skills you will bring to it.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Our school is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students, and we expect all our staff to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment will be conditional on a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, health check and, where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check. 

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions are considered “protected”. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers and, if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice Website and on the websites of charities NACRO and UNLOCK.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a school we are passionate about diversity and recognize that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Applications for this role will close at 9am on Friday, the 20th of September 2024.

You will be redirected to our website on clicking apply to complete your application. Please note that we do not accept applications by CV.