Main Areas of Responsibility
Your key duties will be:
* To supervise lessons for absent teachers.
* To allocate, explain and oversee cover work set.
* To report to the relevant Cover Manager any deficiencies with cover work set to include quality or appropriateness of cover.
* To offer general assistance to students in completing cover work in class.
* To follow the academy’s in class behaviour management and referral systems.
* To organize the days lessons efficiently in advance so that they run as smoothly as possible.
* When not engaged in carrying out cover, to undertake administrative or student support duties at the direction of the line manager or the relevant Vice Principal.
* Occasional supervision of post-16 students in their study base.
* To take registers in all lessons and promptly report any in lesson absences.
* To liaise directly with teachers to ensure cover lessons are delivered to a high quality.
Skills
We would like to hear from you if you have:
* Qualifications to A Level standard or equivalent
* Knowledge of strategies to recognise and reward efforts and achievements towards self-reliance that are appropriate to the age and development stage of the students
* Basic knowledge of SEN and other learning barriers
* Strong organisation and time management skills
* Relevant experience in successfully supervising groups of children aged 11-16
* Previous experience in a school or comparable large organisation
* Understanding of a secondary school environment
* Ability to provide classroom cover – within agreed parameters – in the absence of the class teacher
* Ability to consistently and effectively implement agreed behaviour management strategies
* Ability to use language and other communication skills that students can understand and relate to
* Ability to establish positive relationships with students and empathise with their needs
* Ability to demonstrate active listening skills
* Ability to provide levels of individual attention, reassurance and help with learning tasks as appropriate to students’ needs, encouraging the students to stay on task
* Ability to monitor the students’ response to the learning activities and, where appropriate, modify/adapt activities agreed with the teacher to achieve the intended learning outcomes
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