Cover Supervisor

To facilitate students' learning and provide class supervision during the absence of teachers and tutors.,

• To deliver the curriculum to students, following the centralised lessons provided by the classroom teacher.
• To ensure that you follow our consistent lesson structures to deliver high quality lessons to students.
• To ensure that students follow our expectations of behaviour so that they are 'Ready, Kind and Safe' at all times.
• To proactively support the learning of students in class by explaining, reading, clarifying work and encouraging successful completion of tasks.
• To ensure a calm and secure classroom environment at all times.
• To ensure all general health and safety requirements are met (this is a general role which relates to all staff of the School).
• To ensure safe practice within laboratory workshops and practical lessons.
• To assist in School attendance and punctuality record keeping by taking class registers.
• To ensure the security of classroom equipment and resources including ICT.
• To embrace professional development and coaching with a developmental approach to your practice.
• To undertake administrative or classroom duties when not covering teacher absence.
• To maintain behaviour for learning policies and procedures and encouraging good practice with regard to punctuality, behaviour, standards of work, rewards, and home learning.
School Team Duties:
• To be a Tutor to an assigned group of students to undertake daily learning checks and daily Guided Reading.
• To promote the general progress and well-being of individual students and of the Tutor Group as a whole.
• To liaise with the Head of Year to ensure the implementation of the school's system.
• To register students, accompany them to assemblies, encourage their full attendance at all lessons and their participation in other aspects of school life.
• To alert appropriate staff to problems experienced by students and make recommendations as to how these may be resolved.
• To communicate, as appropriate, with parents of students and persons or bodies outside the school concerned with the welfare of individual students, after consultation with appropriate staff.
Other Professional Requirements:
• To promote inclusion and equality of opportunity for all students.
• To share in the corporate responsibility for, and commitment to, the safeguarding and promotion of well-being and discipline of all students.
• To operate at all times within the stated policies and practices of the school.
• To establish effective working relationships and set a good example through their presentation and personal and professional conduct.
• To co-operate with other staff to ensure a sharing and effective usage of resources to the benefit of the students, school and department.
• To contribute to the corporate life of the school through effective participation in meetings and management systems necessary to co-ordinate the management of the school.
• To take part in marketing and liaison activities such as Open Evenings, Parents' Evenings, Academic Mentoring days and events with partner schools.
• To liaise effectively with parents/carers, multi agencies if appropriate and governors.
Health & Safety:
• Be aware of the responsibility for personal Health, Safety and Welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
• As a trained first aider, to respond to first aid incidents as necessary.
• Cooperate with the employer on all issues connected with Health, Safety and Welfare.
Other job requirements:
• To take responsibility for own professional development and duties in relation to school policies and practices.
• To participate in the schools professional learning programme.
• The Cover Supervisor will be part of the school's performance management system and will have a team leader who will set agreed objectives for the year. The team leader will monitor and review performance including classroom cover.
• The school will support the continuing professional development of all staff, to ensure that their expertise is being kept up to date and that they are professionally fulfilled in their roles.
Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from a manager to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. This document outlines the duties required of the post-holder for the time being to indicate a level of responsibility. It is not a comprehensive or exclusive list and from time to time duties may be varied which do not change the level of responsibility or the general character of the job. This job description may be reviewed at the end of the academic year or earlier if necessary. In addition, it may be amended at any time after consultation with you. What the school offers its staff Relationships & Culture Building a positive culture underpins any successful school and we, therefore, work hard as a team to create a culture rooted in mutual respect, in which teachers can teach and students can learn. We believe that students should be Ready, Kind and Safe for learning and our Ten Habits of Excellence are explicitly taught through our pastoral curriculum. At Tor Bridge High, we pride ourselves on setting the highest of standards for our students and we uphold these through positive relationships that are built on trust, kindness and safety. Staff are supported through a consistent and centralised behaviour system underpinned by a dedicated pastoral team. Continuing Professional Development At both Tor Bridge High and the Ted Wragg Trust, we invest in our staff as part of our Trust 'Grow Great People' strategy. We are committed to growing you into the best leader possible and believe that staff development is fundamental to building a highly ambitious and aspirational school. Moreover, we are proud to have a staff body who have high expectations for themselves and who model these to our students in order to create the same culture at all levels. Staff are the most valuable asset within a school, thus, our second-to-none commitment to coaching encompasses both 'instructional coaching' for teaching and 'leadership coaching' to foster the development of our teams and the continuous improvement of our staff. At Tor Bridge High, there is a culture of feedback with an emphasis on self-reflection and impact. All staff receive personalised instructional coaching every two weeks. We want to create dynamic and innovative teams where staff are learning collaboratively from one another; we encourage staff to seek these opportunities both internally and externally and to deliberately incorporate evidence-informed practice into their teaching to improve our school performance. Growth & Development We believe passionately that every student will succeed through an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all students and through highly skilled adaptive teaching. Our curriculum is driven by academic rigour and powerful knowledge that prepares students for the rigours of future study and work. We are committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity through our curriculum. We have a centralised curriculum, collaborating across departments and other schools to both share resources and to avoid duplication and unnecessary work at all levels. We provide our curriculum teams with the autonomy to decide the very best curriculum to enable our learners to thrive and flourish. The centralised curriculum ensures that all students have an equity of experience and ensures that teachers are not burdened by daily planning; instead they can focus on adaptive teaching and meeting the needs of all learners, alongside reducing workload. Community, Personal Development & Enrichment Tor Bridge High is the heart of the community and therefore, we take pride in our responsibility to serving our local families through strengthening family and community engagement, and helping the community to access services and additional resources. We understand the social and economic challenges faced by the community and the impact these can have on our students and their families, and we believe that we have an important role to play in tackling inequality by working in close partnership with families and the wider community. Education is not simply a collection of grades obtained at the end of examinations; education is about holistic growth and cultural development. We aim to accelerate the personal growth of all students by providing them access to a range of experiences that may not otherwise be available to them. This includes trips to theatres, galleries and concerts; residential trips that develop character; sporting opportunities; charity expeditions abroad and so much more. Further growing the breadth of extra-curricular activities is important to fulfilling our vision to ensure that every single child has access to culturally rich experiences.