Job Title: Cover Supervisor
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £21,660 - £23,455 (NJC Grade D, 6-11) per annum actual salary
Start Date: As soon as possible
Contract Type: Permanent, term time.
Working Pattern: Part Time – 37 hours a week, term time plus inset days (39 weeks per year)
We are inviting interested candidates to come along to our Recruitment Event on Thursday 23rd January at Ellis Guilford School from 5pm-7pm.
The event will provide you with a thorough understanding of what it is like to work at Ellis Guilford School, as well as an opportunity to meet our wonderful children, and supportive staff team.
You can find up more, and sign up to attend, at our website
About Our School:
The Ellis Guilford School is a growing and thriving, larger than average, Secondary School with a clear mission ‘to ensure that the children attending our school have a better chance of success than if they attended any other school’. We deliver a broad curriculum, including emphasis on the creative subjects, to support our children to become confident, independent and balanced individuals, allowing them to excel.
Graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted in 2023, Ellis Guilford School is at an extremely exciting point in its development journey. We strive for ‘EGScellence’ in all that we do!
About the educational team:
Our cover team are one of our most crucial in school; a growing team of staff who provide continuity for our children when their regular teachers are absent. Our cover team provide an excellent educational experience for our children, through high-quality CPD. The cover team collaborate closely with class teachers to maintain our high-standards and expectations within the classroom.
About You:
As a Cover Supervisor at Ellis Guilford School, you will bring a relentless dedication to maintaining high standards of teaching and learning, ensuring that students continue to receive quality education even in the absence of their regular teachers.
Our ideal candidate will:
* Hold high expectations of themselves and others.
* Have the ability to work in a team, collaboratively with other colleagues.
* Be resilient, adaptable, motivated and remain calm under pressure.
* Have a central belief that all of our children can and will succeed.
* Be able to build effective relationships with students and staff.
Requirements:
To apply for the Cover Supervisor opportunity, you must hold:
* GCSE English and Maths at Grade C and above or equivalent.
* Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
* Proven experience in classroom management within an education environment.
* Successful recent experience working as a classroom supervisor, working with pupils in either a class, group or 1:1 setting.
About Creative Education Trust:
Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 13,500 children and young people.
We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.
CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:
CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.
We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.
Next Steps:
Applications close 9.00am on Monday 3rd February 2025.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. We will hold interviews as soon as we have received enough applications from suitably qualified applicants. If a successful appointment is not made, then we will repeat the process. Please do not hesitate to contact the Principal’s PA stevanie.hemingway@ellisguilfordschool.org.uk if you would like an update on your application and details of a potential interview date.
Please submit your application through our website using the direct online application method
We warmly welcome visits to our school, or if you would like to arrange a confidential conversation with the line manager of this position, please contact the Principal’s PA as above, who will be happy to assist in arranging this.