Cover Supervisor (Primary)

Start date: 4 November 2024

Hours per week: 41.52 banked hours, Term time only

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  

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 & 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 & Maths.

Please note Cover Is arranged first thing in the morning and you will be required to start work Monday to Thursday 7.00am to 4.00pm and 7.30am to 15.50 on Fridays.

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

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion. Only applications submitted on the schools application form will be accepted.
How to Apply

For an application pack please visit our website

Completed applications should be sent to Applications@waverley.bham.sch.uk Applications received after this date and time will not be considered.

For further enquiries please call 0121 566 6607.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. 

Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.

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.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.