What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking to recruit a Staff Cover and CPD Administrator to ensure the smooth and efficient deployment of cover arrangements for teaching and other staff, ensuring that all lessons have cover for the day. Experience of working with cover in a school is desirable, but not essential. The postholder will be the first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school. There will be occasions (especially for sickness) when this will take place in the early morning. The postholder will be required to start by 7am, Monday to Friday.
Main duties will include:
• To be first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school.
• Ensure cover is in place for staff absence because of sickness, on pre-planned courses, trips and events and hospital appointments etc.
• Manage and deploy the school’s own cover supervisors and/or external/internal supply teachers.
• Produce the daily/weekly lists of staff absences and arrangements for cover provision. This has to be available for staff by 8.15-8.30am each morning.
• Input absence data into Bromcom (Schools’ Information Management System) modules. Produce reports as appropriate.
• Distribute the cover to supply staff for the day.
• Pass approved Student Activity and Staff CPD forms to the Attendance Officer to enter in the School’s electronic calendars as required.
• To ensure that all new external supply teachers have been successfully cleared through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• Liaise with the Director of Finance and Operations (Cover) to respond to ‘emergency’ cover during the school day e.g. when staff fall ill during the day.
What the school offers its staff
Please refer to the Recruitment Pack
Further details about the role
Successful candidates will be invited to an interview at the school on 15th January 2025.
Commitment to safeguarding
St Laurence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be subject to a full Disclosure and Barring Service check before appointment is confirmed.