Cover Supervisor - Budmouth Academy

We are looking for a responsible, reliable and well-organised person who is both enthusiastic and adaptable to join our friendly and effective team to deliver lessons during the short-term or unforeseen absence of their usual subject teacher and to support teaching and learning across the school.

This is a varied and interesting role that requires confidence and presence to educate our students across all subjects. The successful candidate will also need to be confident in dealing with behavioural issues within the classroom.

Experience in engaging with students in a classroom setting, covering core subjects would be desirable but not essential.

The successful candidate will

• Supervise students, ensuring they are engaged in the classwork. 
• Assist pupils with tasks as needed.
• Create a safe, positive, supportive classroom environment.
• Promote good behaviour, dealing promptly with any conflict and incidents in line with Budmouth Academy’s Behaviour Policy
• Cover lessons in a wide variety of different subjects, ensuring that students learn in the absence of classroom teachers
• Be flexible, resourceful and have a positive, ‘can do’ attitude with colleagues and students

Budmouth Academy values the diversity of our workforce and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; this is a commitment which we expect all staff and volunteers to share. The successful candidate will be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check in line with the Governments safer recruitment guidelines.

The pro rata salary shown is based on the number of hours and weeks worked and includes appropriate paid annual leave and bank holiday entitlements

This role is UK based and your Right to Work will need to be established as part of the appointment process.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

The school will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. All aspects of social media and internet searches will be conducted. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the searches and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.