Senior Cover Supervisor

Career Opportunity

You will be experienced and committed to work within fast paced environments and in various different settings. Adaptability and the use of initiative are essential skills required to be a successful Senior Cover Supervisor.

A successful Cover Supervisor needs to be professional and trustworthy to take on this role. A positive and supportive attitude is essential, as well as being flexible enough to adapt quickly the successful candidate work easily with children across different classes and subjects, utilising resources, responsible for behaviour management and safeguarding, see our job description for further details.

We offer scope for career development at our vibrant and heavily oversubscribed school (over 1700 applications for 180 Y7 places in September 2022), situated in £35 million state-of-the-art, brand new buildings, where we took up occupancy in January 2021.

We’ve recently been awarded Good in our first official Ofsted which gives our new School the best possible spring board to go on to be an ‘outstanding’ school at its next inspection - see link here to read our report: https://www.cws-croydon.co.uk/about/ofsted-reports.

All year groups are on roll, the on-going growth of Key Stage 4 and the CWS Sixth Form brings a variety of promotion opportunities for dedicated and ambitious staff. CWS is a school with a track record of rewarding outstanding performance amongst current staff via internal promotions. By becoming part of the team at Coombe Wood School, your career will benefit from joining a future-focused group of schools within Folio Education Trust, offering access to CPD, which contributes to the recognised quality of learning within our schools.

There is a strong team spirit amongst both staff and students at Coombe Wood School. Our staff are ready to overcome unexpected challenges, break fresh ground, encourage collaboration and share excellent teaching skills within our hardworking and dedicated group.

About us – context, location and buildings

This fully inclusive secondary co-educational school was established to meet an urgent rising local demand. The site of our new building and extensive grounds is opposite Lloyd Park in South Croydon, with an excellent Tramlink service to and from East Croydon station (just 5-minute journey-time away,) and a short walk from several bus routes. Our £35 million new building and facilities offer specialist teaching spaces for all subjects including Music, Dance, Drama, Science, Design Technology and Art. In addition, students benefit from indoor and outdoor auditoriums, a brand new Health Related Fitness building offering dedicated health and well-being studios and competition-sized spaces for gymnastics, netball, football and basketball. The school is set in spacious parkland grounds which offer a range of outdoor learning opportunities across all subject areas. 

Ethos

Our ethos derives from the theoretical and practical nature of sport with TEAMWORK, RESPECT, ENJOYMENT, DISCIPLINE and SPORTSMANSHIP as its core values. All staff are expected to demonstrate and support these in their everyday work. Coombe Wood School teaching and non-teaching staff will work closely together across many different areas of the school to ensure the best possible learning experiences for our students.

Coombe Wood School is part of Folio Education Trust: http://www.folio-education.co.uk/ . This is a local collaboration of schools, with future possibilities of shared training or working at more than one school, so by becoming part of the team at Coombe Wood School, your career will experience wider benefits.

Location

This is a new secondary fully-inclusive co-educational school, serving the communities of South and Central Croydon, established to meet an urgent rising local demand. Initially housed in temporary accommodation, the site for the ‘new build’ school is opposite Lloyd Park in South Croydon, with an excellent Tramlink service to and from East Croydon station (just 5 minutes’ journey-time away) and a short walk from several bus routes. Over £35 million is being invested in building a state-of-the-art school which will include enhanced sports facilities, comprising a competition-sized sports hall, a full-size 3G artificial surface and aspirations to include a closed circuit cycle track (CRC) and 8-lane athletics track.

Benefits Include:

• Chance to join an innovative and dedicated team

• Heavily oversubscribed, catchment includes many aspirational, supportive families

• Working with students who use MyZone technology to track and improve their fitness as a result increasing their focus and concentration

• Outstanding brand new £35 million buildings opened January 2021

• Free access to use new sports amenities for staff

Application Procedure

Please download the Job Description, information pack and application form from here or from http://www.cws-croydon.co.uk/Career-Opportunities For enquiries about this role please contact nchoudhury@cws.foliotrust.uk

Please note that to comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines CVs cannot be accepted as a valid form of application.

The completed forms should be emailed to careers@cws.croydon.co.uk

Applications accepted until 9:00am 31 May 2023, please apply promptly

Interviews: TBA

• we reserve the right to appoint sooner if we identify a suitable candidate

Safeguarding

Folio Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The recruitment process will include an enhanced DBS check, medical screening, confirmation of right to work in the UK and all other pre-employment checks in line with safer recruitment requirements.

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http://www.folio-education.co.uk/Current-Employment-Opportunities 

Equal Opportunities

At Folio Education Trust we believe that all individuals are of equal value and we are committed to equal opportunities for all. All people who work and study in the school have the right to be respected and valued within a safe and secure environment and not to be discriminated against on the grounds of age, class, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief.