Vacancy Reference
JOB002669
Job Title
Cover Supervisor
Job Start Date
As soon as possible
Salary Range
£26,409 to £32,654
Hours Per Week
41.52 (inclusive of banked hours)
Working Pattern
Banked hours
School Address
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Telephone number: 0121 566 6607
Contact Email
Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk
Contract Type
Permanent
Closing Date
2 December 2024, 10:00am
Job Information

Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 pupils on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership and management and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Waverley School is an all through school for pupils aged 4-19. It also has a Resource Base for pupils with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. Waverley Studio College is a specialist academy catering for 14 – 19 year old students which offers both academic and vocational qualifications. The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 pupils including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.

Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as a Cover Supervisor to join our team.

The ideal candidate will have experience of liaising with teaching staff to discuss work set during staff absence, arranging cover using SIMS, supervising students during short term absences, organising the return of completed work to students, assisting with the organisation and production of curriculum materials, assisting with the presentation of display work within curriculum areas, and assisting with general administrative tasks. You will also need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to forge strong working relationships within the school. Experience of working in both primary and secondary schools would be an advantage, but not essential. All applicants must be qualified to degree level and must also have a good general standard of education – A* - C in English and Maths.

Please note cover is arranged first thing in the morning therefore you may be required to start work 7:00am on certain days as agreed by your line manager.

 

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

How to apply:

For an application pack, please visit our website

Only applications submitted on the schools application form will be accepted. 

Completed applications should be sent to: Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk

Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered.

For further enquiries please call 0121 566 6607.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion.

Safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Terms and Conditions
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
Rehabilitation of Offenders
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.