Cover Supervisor at Saint Benedict, a Catholic Voluntary Academy

About this Role

Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy are seeking toappoint a Cover Supervisor to join our busy school. As our cover supervisor, you will be responsible forensuring that students have a high-quality learning experience when their usualteacher is away from school.

You’ll create a purposeful, positive learning environment, guide students through pre-prepared work, and help them stay focused and engaged so their learning never misses a beat.

If you’re passionate about supporting young people, committed to helping them achieve their potential, and excited to be part of a warm, faith-centred community, we’d love to hear from you.

This is your chance to take on a dynamic role leading lessons across KS3 and KS4, with occasional opportunities to work with KS5, and to contribute to the wider life of our welcoming Academy.

You will manage classroom behaviour to ensure pupils stay on task and facilitate the activities that have been designed by teaching staff to ensure that students complete the work in an effective learning environment.

This is a permanent role, working for 37 hours per week, term time only.

You Will:

• Provide a high-quality customer focused management administrative service within the main school office
• Supervise the students in KS3 and KS4 working on pre-set learning activities in the absence of a teacher.
• Be caring and supportive and committed to achieving excellent results.
• Have a belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can achieve exceptional things.
• Promote the well-being of our student’s providing guidance and support and be able to inspire learning and progress.
• Be resilient and determined, and confident in talking to large groups of young people.

In return, we can offer a supportive working environment, with access to regular high quality research-based CPD, excellent standards of behaviour, and a commitment to eliminating unnecessary workload.

About us

Situated in the beautiful Darley Abbey area on the outskirtsof Derby, Saint Benedict is the city's only Catholic Secondary school. We servea wonderfully diverse community of students who come from over forty countriesaround the world and who come from all parts of Derby and beyond.

We are most proud of the fact that our rapid improvement inoutcomes has been in an inclusive and supportive environment, as Ofsteddescribed 'a distinctive feature of pupils' behaviour in this school is theirsense of a community and the care that they extend towards one another'. Inaddition to setting out a clear vision for school improvement we work hard toensure that every child has their needs fully met by our outstanding SENCO andour Inclusion Team. As a community of professionals we are also highlysupportive of one another.

Being part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi AcademyTrust

On 1st September 2018, the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic MultiAcademy Trust, part of the Diocese of Nottingham, brought together 25 Catholicschools located in Derby City, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire andStockport together in partnership, to ensure the very best spiritual, socialand academic experiences and outcomes for the young people in our schools.

Everything we do is to better the lives and futures of ourchildren, providing access to first-class teaching, both academically andspiritually and we are united by our collective vision to excel.

Why work for the St Ralph Sherwin Multi Academy Trust?

A summary of our fantastic benefits are as follows:

• Access to first class CPD opportunities. We also work inpartnership with Nottingham Teaching School Alliance to deliver meaningful andrelevant CPD. Our Leadership Academy identifies and develops future leaders.
• Genuine opportunities for career progression - with 25academies in our family, and 84 academies across the Diocese, opportunities forcareer progression are a reality.
• Professional assistance - you will have access to anEmployee Assistance Programme which provides confidential, independent andunbiased information and guidance 24/7. If clinically advisable, it also offersface-to-face counselling sessions.
• Pension - automatic enrolment into the Local Government PensionScheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, generous employer contributions.
• Terms and Conditions - we have committed to followingnationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and supportstaff.

For more information about our Trust and our Academies,please visit St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust - SRSCMAT

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Please note that the closing date may be brought forward depending upon interest.

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