Cover Manager
Bourne End Academy
Buckinghamshire
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Bucks Pay Range 4 - £22,818 - £24,703 pa (full time equivalent)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required – September 2018
- Apply by:
- 23 May 2018
Job overview
Full time (37 hours a week) • Must be able to start at 7.30am • 39 weeks per year
Are you an outstanding professional capable of adding to an ambitious Upper School in its fourth year as a sponsored Academy? Do you aim to belong to a school where the senior staff ‘provide dynamic leadership, conveying a sense of ambition and determination to succeed’ (Ofsted 2016)?
Bourne End Academy combines high academic aspirations with a focus on warmth and inclusivity for all our students, with a much improved track record of achieving consistently good academic outcomes. We have a strong Talent Management Policy, going out of our way to attract and retain excellent staff. Part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust, our school is also a strategic partner in the Cygnus Teaching School Alliance. The Academy is well situated, with excellent road and rail links to London and the Home Counties.
We are currently seeking to appoint a Cover Manager to our academy, to provide a proactive, effective and efficient cover service. The successful candidate will:
- Ensure that cover is organised on a daily basis and that disruption to students’ learning, due to staff absence, is minimised
- Line manage the cover supervisors
- Co-ordinate other classroom services, and duties to be undertaken by the cover supervisors when they are not deployed in a lesson
- Provide supervision of classes in the absence of a subject teacher
Closing date: Noon – Thursday 24 May 2018
Please complete an application form and write a letter of application of no more than two sides of A4, to Andrea Jacobson, Headteacher outlining your relevant experiences that make you an outstanding candidate for this post.
Contact Lucy Gibbons (PA to Headteacher) for an application form, job description or for more information on 01628 819022 or lgibbons@bea.bucks.sch.uk.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo Child Protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Bourne End Academy
Previously known as The Wye Valley School, Bourne End Academy adopted its current moniker following its conversion to academy status in 2014, the school is now a part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust. With around 600 pupils aged 11-18 in a co-educational setting, Bourne End Academy is smaller than the average secondary school of its type. In terms of intake, the school has a higher than average number of students with Special Educational Needs, with the school providing a specially resourced unit for students with Autism.
Headteacher
Andrea Jacobson
Values and Vision
Bourne End Academy works closely with its academy partners to provide an extensive and well thought-out curriculum. The school offers a wide range of subjects, both vocational and academic, and strives to create a structured and disciplined learning environment, the school sets high standards for both behaviour and uniform, and is not shy about encouraging its students to work independent and properly guide their own learning. Aside from their academic studies, Bourne End also strives to equip students with the necessary life skills to become responsible adults, with the proper emotional and social intelligence.
Ofsted
“The welfare and personal development of pupils is fostered particularly well. There are carefully planned activities in lessons, assemblies and whole days devoted to events promoting pupils’ personal development and understanding of diverse topics. There is a culture of safety and, as a result, pupils say they feel safe in school.”
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