Cover Administrator

The role:

Shoreham Academy is looking for a full-time Cover Administrator (term time only) to provide supervision of classes to cover for teacher absence.

The post-holder will be able to effectively manage student behaviour in the classroom and able to deliver high quality cover, ensuring that work set by the absent teacher is distributed to students and explained. The role also requires some office administration and student services support working alongside other members of our support staff team. This varied and interesting role is often seen as gateway position for moving into other support staff and teaching roles. 

About you: 

We are looking for a suitably experienced, enthusiastic, driven, hardworking individual who is able to use their own initiative and can relate to and establish an excellent rapport with students.

You will have the ambition and vision to secure the very best outcomes for all students.  If, having read the person specification you are confident that you fulfil our requirements for this position, this could be the perfect opportunity for you, and we look forward to receiving your application. Shoreham Academy aspires to being a ‘Great School’ so we need great people to be able to achieve this.

Staff Benefits: 

● free use of the Academy’s fitness suite

● generous employer contribution pension scheme

● free on-site parking and easy access to local public transport

● cycle to work scheme

All new employees will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with Barred List information prior to working in school.  Two satisfactory references are required from all successful applicants, one of which must be the current or most recent employer. Prohibition order checks are undertaken for all newly appointed teachers and support staff who will be engaged in ‘teaching work’.

All new employees will be required to complete a medical questionnaire. 

United Learning reserve the right to request further checks for individuals that have ever lived or worked outside the UK.  It is an individual’s obligation to meet these requirements by requesting a Certificate of Good Conduct from that country, or those countries, of residence and (for teachers) a Letter of Professional Standing from the professional regulating authority in the country or those countries in which they worked.

All new employees will be required to read and sign the annual Staff Student Relationship letter upon joining the Academy.

All new employees are required to complete three online safeguarding modules prior to starting work.

Evidence of an individual’s right to work in the UK will be checked at interview.  Verification of any mandatory professional qualifications and professional status; relevant certificates or a letter of confirmation from the awarding institution must be provided at interview.

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole.  We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.