Brighton Hill Community School

Cover Teacher

Closing date: 19/04/2024 at 17:00

Contract/Hours: Permanent , Part-time

Key Stage: KS3/KS4

Salary Type: MPR / UPR

Salary Details: MPR / UPR

Hours of Work: 31.25 per week - term-time only

Location of Role: Brighton Hill Community School

Contact e-mail address: [email protected]

Job/Person Summary

Due to growing numbers, we are delighted to be in a position to advertise for a Cover Teacher to work with our existing Cover team.

Brighton Hill Community School has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted and is a rapidly growing coeducational 11-16 Community School with approximately 1200 students.  We are looking for a confident, skilled and committed team-player who is willing to utilise their teaching expertise in this demanding yet hugely rewarding role. 

Our cover team are an integral part of the school team and help ensure learning and teaching remains at the heart of our commitment to young people, through supervision and teaching of classes when regular teachers are not in school.  When cover is light, our cover team undertake administrative and class-based tasks in order to further support the progress of our students. The hours of this post will be 31.25 per week - term-time only.  Salary: £30,000 (M1)

The successful candidate will be:

• An excellent classroom practitioner with Qualified Teacher Status – able to apply your pedagogical knowledge to cover lessons of all subjects, supporting with planning and marking and collaboration with parents where required, for both long- and short-term teacher absences
• Committed to achieving the very best outcomes for our students and our journey to being an outstanding school
• Able to create a stimulating learning environment to promote exceptional progress and high engagement in their regular classroom teacher’s absence
• Passionate about teaching and learning and your own professional development
• Able to make a significant contribution to wider school life

Why apply to work at Brighton Hill Community School?

• High quality support from the Senior Leadership Team and the Humanities faculty
• “Leaders and governors constantly focus on their vision of ‘making success inevitable’”. (Ofsted 2022)
• “Lessons are calm and focused. When asking pupils about this, one simply explained, ‘It’s how we do it here.’” (Ofsted 2022)
• The opportunity to innovate and develop your professional skills through a comprehensive and innovative professional development programme which seeks to develop all staff
• The chance to be part of a dedicated team committed to improving outcomes for our students, who “are eager to explain why they believe that Brighton Hill is such a special school.” (Ofsted 2022)
• A clear vision for Teaching and Learning which embraces current research and creative practice

Application Procedure

For full details and an application form, please visit our website: www.brightonhill.hants.sch.uk.  Alternatively, telephone Jo Levett, HR Officer on 01256 362523 or email: [email protected]

Please note CVs will not be accepted. 

Closing date for applications: Friday 22nd March 2024