Cover Supervisor

Thank you for your interest in the position of Cover Supervisor at Orchard School Bristol.
We are a friendly school, serving a richly diverse community in north Bristol. We are building success on our core ORCHARD values of being: Open-minded, Respectful, Creative and Curious, Healthy, Ambitious, Responsible and Determined. Our students are wonderful – they value our staff, knowing that you can make a real difference to their lives. The mission statement of the school, “inspire today, empower for life”, lies at the heart of all that the school does. We place no limits on our aspirations for our students. We are seeking two friendly and enthusiastic Cover Supervisors to work full time or part time (covering the hours of 8am – 4pm, Monday to Friday) to provide a cover service for absent teachers. This would involve supervising classes/groups of students in lessons, tutoring small groups of students, carrying out additional learning interventions, and potentially online learning. We welcome applicants for this role who are educated to at least A Level standard, but ideally with a degree, possess excellent interpersonal skills and are confident working with young people. You must be able to build great relationships with students and staff, be calm and controlled, and be able to follow our behaviour and reward systems. You will be working within a busy school environment and will need to have high expectations of managing behaviour, alongside empathy, flexibility and high resilience. This post is ideally suited to someone with experience as a Cover Supervisor/ teacher, or alternatively to someone who is considering teaching as a career and is a confident and quick learner. We provide excellent professional development and learning opportunities. We offer: enthusiastic students, willing to learn and achieve excellent student behaviour and a calm learning environment a bright, happy place in which to learn and work a professionally stimulating environment which values the contributions of all staff a strong commitment to your professional development award-winning staff wellbeing with a very supportive staff bodyClosing date: There is no closing date for this post, Early application is advised as applications will be considered as they are received, and we reserve the right to appoint at any time in the processFluency DutyThe ability to converse at ease with pupils, parents and other users of the service and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.