KS2 Cover Supervisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Teaching Assistant to step up into a Cover Supervisor role, 33 hours per week (term time only, plus training days) in Key Stage 2. This role also offers future progression opportunities for applicants who wish to pursue teacher training.

This is your chance to join a highly committed and supportive team in an ambitious and forward thinking primary and nursery school. Are you an outstanding individual who will share our vision for high aspiration and achievement for all? The school offer an excellent caring environment in a bright, well-resourced school. Following a recent short inspection, Ofsted found 'the school continues to be good’ the inspector also commented 'The school’s ethos is very inclusive and all pupils are given opportunities to thrive’.

Job Purpose

To supervise whole classes to cover short term absence of teachers and to allow teachers to carry out professional duties and training.

To complement the professional work of teachers by taking responsibility for agreed learning activities under an agreed system of supervision.

This may involve planning, preparing and delivering learning activities for individuals/groups or short term for whole classes.

Cultural Fit

Our school is developing all the time. We have implemented a curriculum whose drivers are possibilities, community and independence. We are a school at the heart of our community, and we feel it is important for our children to have a developed sense of their locality and be proud to be part of it.

Together with our curriculum our pedagogic principles underpin the school culture.

• We believe we can all improve, children learn from staff as well as from each other.
• We believe in the potential of all children to learn
• We engage in deep thought about challenge and quality
• We provide opportunities to practise skills that have been learnt until over time automaticity is achieved.
• We sequence all learning in to small steps with children’s starting points taken in to account
• We have an openness to feedback
• We develop worked models that communicate quality and success
• We take ratio in to account where over time learners take on more of the learning load
• We believe that children should be given feedback at all points of the learning journey

We can offer:

• An induction package to support successful integration
• Buddy system - no question is a silly question but it’s good to have a buddy to ask
• A forward thinking school, which is committed to improvement through evidence based research
• Norfolk Rewards - staff discount programme
• Part of the Viscount Nelson Education Network (VNET) incorporating a tailored package of bespoke in-school support as well as a wide range of CPD opportunities across Norfolk and beyond.
• A digital strategy using technology to enhance learning
• A focus on supporting good mental health by being one of the first schools to be signed up to work with a Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
• SSS Safeguarding suite training package ensuring that training for safeguarding is highly effective

Essential requirements:

• Very good numeracy/literacy skills - GCSE Grade C Maths and English or equivalent
• Effective behaviour management strategies
• Experience of working with children of primary school age

If you meet the above criteria and are searching for new opportunities within education, please apply now or contact Sophie Lamont at Reed Cambridge with any initial queries.