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Cover Supervisor

Cover Supervisor

Southgate School

Enfield

Salary:
Scale 5 Point 12 – Actual Salary £24,025 - 36 hours per week, 39 weeks per annum
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2023
Apply by:
9 June 2023

Job overview

This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and efficient candidate to join our team. We are looking for a Cover Supervisor with the relevant experience and understanding to support our student body. Experience of working in a school and some teaching or teaching support experience is essential. We are looking to appoint someone with a calm manner and the ability to motivate students. Cover teachers are provided with work set by staff and are tasked with supporting students to complete the work in the absence of their class teacher. At Southgate we have a team of 3 permanent cover supervisors who are well known to students and give some stability on occasions where the teacher is absent. 

Why apply for this job at Southgate School?

  • We are a member of Middlesex Learning Trust alongside The Compton and Stopsley schools. Together we are leading edge in our approach to ensuring excellence for all
  • We are consistently over-subscribed and are regularly described as a ‘happy’ school
  • You will work in a school that has exceptional students from all walks of life and staff who truly care about the impact of their work
  • You will be joining a school that is buzzing with life, energy and opportunities for your own continued professional development
  • ‘Leaders’ work has been sharply focused on making sure that all subjects are planned and taught effectively. As a result, pupils achieve well in their GCSEs.’ (Ofsted 2019)
  • ‘There is never a day that I don’t want to come to school’. All the pupils we spoke to held this view.’ (Ofsted 2019)

We are a mixed comprehensive school (1500+ on roll including the Sixth Form) dedicated to academic achievement and the maintenance of very high standards.

Training

  • All teachers can access professional development opportunities tailored for their level of career development. As part of this, we offer fully funded teaching CPD opportunities, such as, The Outstanding Teacher Programme and all the National Professional Qualifications on site
  • MLT supports the development of subject specific pedagogical expertise through cross-school sharing of best practice and structured opportunities for developing subject knowledge with departments, for example through the development of a process for subject-specific reviews
  • MLT enables and encourages staff to work together within and across academies to improve their practice through publishing articles in the ‘MLT Teacher’ magazine and participating in research groups. Topics of 2021-22 have included ‘New Beginnings’, linked to COVID recovery, and ‘How Students Learn’ with a focus on cognitive science.  

Location

Southgate School has excellent transport links. We are five minutes away from Oakwood Tube Station (Piccadilly Line). Central London is only 20 minutes away.

Further Information

An application form can be downloaded from the school website and should be submitted to the Headteacher’s PA/Office Manager Mrs Jane Theobald by midday on Friday 9th June 2023 by email to hr@southgate.enfield.sch.uk

All schools in MLT are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, all workers and employees in MLT are expected to share this commitment

About Southgate School

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  • Southgate School
  • Sussex Way, Cockfosters, Barnet
  • Hertfordshire
  • EN4 0BL
  • United Kingdom
+44 208 449 9583

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Southgate School is an extremely popular and oversubscribed school with an excellent reputation in Cockfosters, North London. Our school is on the border of Barnet and Enfield, a relatively prosperous area that falls within the Outer London weighting for teachers. Every year our examination results demonstrate high performance at all levels and significantly above national outcomes. Our students either go to their first choice of university or to high quality apprenticeships. We support all aspects of the curriculum and are particularly proud of our high-profile performing arts: our regular music concerts, drama performances and art exhibitions from our talented students.

We have an established reputation for academic excellence and the quality of our pastoral care, with visitors always commenting on the happy atmosphere. Ofsted noted in 2019 that all students they met agreed: “There is never a day that I don’t want to come to school.”

We are part of Middlesex Learning Trust (MLT) – a Multi-Academy Trust consisting of three large secondary schools. The key purpose of MLT is to deliver the best possible education for our students, to enable them to maximise their progress, academically, socially and emotionally, ready to take their place in society as positive and successful adults. The Trust and its schools have a long history of maximising the potential of every child. Within the Trust, there is a profound commitment to fostering high aspirations in all students in order to secure the very best outcomes for them regardless of their background.  We are committed to this moral purpose and support each other to secure the very best educational outcomes. Collaboration lies at the heart of Teaching and Learning within the Trust, with opportunities for shared professional development, planning, research and moderation that strengthens the Teaching and Learning in individual schools. An MLT Teacher magazine is published four times a year showcasing best practice within Trust schools, and an evidence-informed Trust Teaching and Learning Handbook is used across the schools to support excellent and up-to-date classroom practice. A Talent Management Framework is also in place to support staff development which includes residency opportunities within and across Trust schools. http://www.middlesexlearningtrust.org.uk/ 

Teaching and Learning at Southgate School is focused on our ‘Non-negotiables’, the five pillars of quality first teaching at Southgate School. These include high quality questioning, challenge for all, high impact feedback, metacognition and clear objectives and outcomes. We encourage students to be independent and to aim high; we make sure students feel consistently challenged as we know that they learn well and make most progress when they are thinking hard. Our Teaching and Learning Team are dedicated to supporting teachers to improve their practice with regular inspiring training and strategies based on current research in the education community. We encourage teachers to develop and show off their ideas and expertise with our regular Show and Share sessions, sharing good practice with all staff. We also offer the suite of NPQs to our staff including the NPQSL, NPQLT and NPQ in Leading Behaviour and Culture, working with a lead provider Ambition. The MLT Talent Management Framework supports teachers at all stages of their careers and offers them a wide range of opportunities to develop.

Our induction for new staff is supportive and ambitious: all new staff receive training on our ‘Non-negotiables’, our school vision of Excellence For All, as well as what it means to be a member of staff at our school. We then offer a programme of training sessions for our new teachers as well as teachers from the thirteen schools that are part of the Southgate Learning Alliance. We work with Ambition and the North West London Teaching School Hub to support ECTs in their first years of teaching to make sure teachers new to the profession make the most of the fantastic training resources provided as well as offering high quality coaching and mentoring from our experienced and dedicated team.

We are a welcoming school community where colleagues are valued and supported. Our recent staff survey showed that overwhelmingly staff are pleased with the work environment and the leadership of their school; our aim is that our staff enjoy their work. However, it is the students themselves who really make the school a pleasure to work in. Time and again they are our best ambassadors: young people who want to get on in life and who take their learning seriously. They are at the heart of all that we strive to do.

More information about our school is available on our website or please contact us to arrange a visit.

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