Cover Supervisor
SR1 (7—11) £17206—£18,399 (Actual) (£24,294—£25,979 FTE) (Based on 30.5 hours per week, 5 days a week, 39 weeks per year) .
The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Closing Date: midday, Friday 6th September 2024
The Duston School is looking to appoint Cover Supervisors. This is a varied role within the school, providing learning support for specific curriculum teams, supervising classes for short-term teacher absence, examination invigilation, assisting on school visits and any administrative duties across the school. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent with experience/skills of working with children. As a school we will support teacher training and would welcome applications from candidates who would like to train to become teachers in the following subject areas: • Maths • Science • PE • History • English • Geography Please contact the school for further details.
Do you want to work in a hugely successful and dramatically transformed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the heart of all that is does? In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is:
• Built upon strong values and principles
• Places people at the heart of all that it does
Heavily over-subscribed
• Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded
• A Behaviour Hub Lead School
• The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE outcomes in 2019 placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools
• GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2022 were the best in the school’s history
• A school of Character
• An Investors in People Gold School
An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School
• A Global Equality Collective School
• The home of ResearchED Northampton
• A PKC Curriculum Hub
• An Ofsted ‘Good’ school
The school offers competitive working conditions and packages, including:
• Future progression resides at the heart of the school’s ethos
• Personalised and bespoke CPD is offered to all staff
• Opportunities to attend external CPD courses and visiting other schools are positively encouraged
• An enhanced induction programme to support all new staff to the school, with a bespoke package of support for ECT’s.
• Westfield Health - Private Health Plan for permanent, salaried employees
• On-site car parking
• A laptop
• On-site Before & After School Club for Primary Phase pupils available
• A detailed Workload Charters, which sets out the school’s commitment to support all staff with their workload
• No emails are sent at weekends nor holidays, we respect as a school the need to rest
• Co-planning is a guiding principle upon which our curriculum is built, with the use of workbooks and knowledge organisers across the school
• On-site restaurant for staff to use on a daily basis
• The lion share of directed meeting time is handed to staff to work on the curriculum
• Two faculty away days
• 4 traded days (which includes one day off to thank staff for the extra miles that they go)
• A priority place for staff children at the school
• Face-to-face meetings for all staff with the Principal to discuss your wellbeing, professional development and career aspirations
• Membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme for teaching staff
• Membership of the LGPS Pension Scheme for nonteaching staff For support staff
• Generous Holiday entitlement, including bank holidays (or pro-rata of) which increases with service
• Non-contractual discretionary days leave for school shutdown over Christmas * Fees apply Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
Applying:
Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org
If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process.
Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates
Please apply here if you are interested in this role