Cover Manager is required for a Northampton and East Northamptonshire school to begin with them in the New Year. Experience: * Experience coordinating cover and/or working as cover supervisor * Experience of working with children * Innovation and creativity to engage and enthuse learners Essential * Excellent classroom management skills * Experience line managing a team Skills and knowledge: Awareness of the importance of data protection, security and confidentiality * Practical knowledge of the software used for managing cover or other MIS * Ability and passion to champion all children * Ability to apply the use of ICT to teaching and learning * An appreciation of local and national policies, priorities and statutory frameworks, including those relating to the safeguarding of children * Ability to take initiative and to follow it through to completion Duties: * Use of the allocation absence system, and any other interlinked MIS system. * Notify the HR Manager when an ongoing absence requires a doctors note. * Responsible for the delivery of the work and behavior management of students in lesson time in the absence of a regular teacher or other qualified member of the teaching staff, minimising the disruption to study such absence may cause, as far as possible. * Support and help students of all abilities and diversities with reading, writing and mainstream classroom work access all areas of the curriculum as appropriate to the post and to the individual student. * Ensure the Health & Safety of students during cover lessons as specified by national and local authority guidelines and school policy. Monitor the welfare of individual students if necessary, reporting back to teaching, pastoral or SLT staff or taking appropriate action to resolve concerns if possible. * Provide detailed feedback to teaching staff so that they are able to follow up their absence with appropriate work and actions and address any issues that may have arisen during the Cover Supervisor's session in order to maintain a consistent and coherent programme for the students. * Register students in the class being supervised and report back to teaching, pastoral and SLT staff regarding any concerns about attendance or other issues noted so they can be appropriately addressed. * Where applicable ensure that students are given tasks or activities approved by the school for registration periods when curriculum work is not taking place or those times when work is finished before the end of a session. * Follow the school's behaviour policy and maintain standards of behaviour as much as possible and as appropriate to the post to support a controlled, safe and comfortable environment for students and staff. * Provide support to departments and teachers when classroom supervision is not required as a valuable resource for backing up the learning environment and so to build good working relationships with staff and students. * Where applicable to the school setting, undertake the invigilation of internal and external examinations as required helping ensure examinations are supervised appropriately. Apply today