Cover Supervisor

Applefields School; Richmond; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Arete Learning Trust is seeking a part-time Teaching Assistant to provide short-term cover for absent staff at Richmond School in North Yorkshire. The role involves supporting pupils with pre-prepared tasks, maintaining engagement, and supervising behaviour during class sessions.

Hours are 32.5 per week during term time (39 weeks per year). The post is permanent, grade CD, and based at Richmond, with responsibilities overseen by the Deputy Headteacher.

Responsibilities

• Provide short-term cover for absent teaching staff
• Allocate pre-prepared work and keep pupils on task
• Manage pupil behaviour during class

Job description

Salary: £25,614 to£26,847 per annum pro rata
Grade: CD
Contract: Permanent
Hours:Part Time 32.5 Hours Per Week Term Time
Location:Richmond, North Yorkshire, Richmond School

About this Role

This role in the school is to provide short term cover for absent teaching staff, allocating pre prepared work, keeping pupils on task and managing the behaviour of pupils during class. The role does not involve planning, preparing, delivering lessons or assessing and reporting on the development progress and attainment of pupils.

Hours of Work: 32.5 hours per week, term time, including training days (39 weeks per year)
Position Type: Permanent
Line Manager: Deputy Headteacher
Travel Required: No
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

• Health, happiness and wellbeing
• A safe, disciplined and supportive environment
• A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach
• High standards and expectations
• Integrity, kindness and good manners
• Respect for individuality and difference
• Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’. Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

• Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.
• Are committed to our Trust values.
• Show initiative and are responsive to change.
• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.
• Are creative in their approach to problem solving.
• Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.
• Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.