Cover Supervisor

About the role:  Calling all recent Graduates! We have a fantastic position allowing you to utilise your degree and ignite a passion within our students in this subject area... Longfield Academy are seeking to appoint Cover Supervisors to join and expand their dedicated team from September 2018 who provide full support to the staff and students.  The successful candidates will ensure the good behaviour of our students and to ensure students engage in their learning during short-term absence of Teachers.  Cover work will be supplied wherever possible for you to use as a basis for the lessons and we will also determine your subject specialisms with you as a preference.  Excellent inter-personal skills are required for this post as our successful candidates needs to demonstrate that they can build good rapport with staff and students alike.  

This post is ideal for graduates with an interest in developing a career in teaching as the experience you can gain from this is first-hand, and also those who may have had experience within the education sector beforehand. 

Please consult the Job Description by clicking here for an overview of the responsibilities of the post holder.  Please note that whilst previous experience within an education environment is desirable, full training will be provided for the successful candidates.  

About Longfield Academy: In May 2018, Longfield Academy was judged by Ofsted as a 'Good' school with an 'Outstanding' Sixth Form provision - a much deserved allocade. Our academy is a highly collaborative and friendly environment where relationship-building pays huge dividends. The Academy has a beautiful, £26m learning environment which includes a specialist ASD provision, state of the art technology and sports facilities. We are consistently heavily over-subscribed and have a large and growing Sixth Form. Click here to read more about our highly successful academy. 

Being part of the Leigh Academies Trust:  Being part of a successful multi-academy trust allows the academy to share best practice and collaborate with colleagues from a number of other academies in the local area.  As part of the 'cluster' structure all of our academies are grouped together in key geographical area to enable them to be able to support each other and share resources.  It also offers staff better access to career opportunities as the Trust is committed to developing and promoting from within wherever possible.  We also want the Trust to be an organisation where people can enjoy teaching and become the type of teacher they aspire to be.  For more information on working for the Trust please visit our careers pages.

Diversity at our core:  As a Trust we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals we all bring something unique to the role regardless of age, gender, race, beliefs or disabilities which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise.  The academy is committed to safeguarding children and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.  Our commitment to safeguarding is underpinned by robust processes and checks which are in place across the Trust.