Casual Cover Supervisor

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Broadway Academy is seeking Casual Cover Supervisors to join their team of casual bank staff. This role involves covering teacher absences by providing instruction and maintaining high standards of behaviour. The position suits those available for flexible work during term time, and offers the chance to make a difference in students' lives.

Benefits

Access to employee assistance programme

Appropriate training and development

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people in a classroom environment.
• Good standard of written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Teach set work to students when teachers are absent.
• Maintain high standards of student behaviour.
• Create good relationships with students and staff.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Ability to maintain high standards

Job description

Job start date: 28 April 2025

Hours per week: Zero hours contract, term time only

Broadway Academy
The Broadway
Birmingham
B20 3DP
Telephone Number: 0121 566 4334

Contact email: [e-mail]

Contract type: Casual

Join our casual bank of cover staff!

Do you have the experience or ability to teach set work to students when teachers are absent? Can you maintain high standards of student behaviour using praise, rewards and sanctions?

If you are available for part or all of the week and working flexibly in term-time would suit your work/life arrangements, this could be the opportunity for you.

Broadway Academy Trust has been rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted for the last 14 years and is constantly striving for excellence.

The Team:

Broadway Academy has a ‘bank’ of casual cover supervisors we can call on day-to-day as the need arises to cover staff absences. We know that trained cover teaching with a commitment to the values of the Academy and the ability to provide consistency in managing standards is the best for our students.

The Role Ideally, you will have:

• experience of working with young people in a classroom environment

• excellent interpersonal skills and capability to form good relationships with students and staff

• the commitment to carrying out varied cover and support duties in a busy school

• ability to maintain high standards of teaching and learning

• a good standard of written and oral communication skills

• be able to work on your own initiative and possess excellent organisational skills

• a desire to make a difference to our students and their outcomes

Importantly, you must be prepared to be available on the day when we may need you. Our Cover Manager assesses staff gaps and the school’s capacity to cover student learning every morning at 7:00am and organises additional support for a smooth start to the day for 8:40am.

What you will get:

You will get a real opportunity to make a difference within a school which encourages students and staff to be aspirational. A full working day is 8:30am4:00pmwith a 30 min unpaid break. Shorter cover assignments may also be offered. Work offered and accepted day-to-day will be paid at the day rate.

You will receive appropriate training and development. Staff wellbeing is a priority for the Trust, and you will have access to the employee assistance programme.

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:

If this sounds like flexible work that would suit you, please apply by contacting:[e-mail] 0121 566 4334 and requesting an application pack.

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.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

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

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

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.