My well known school based in Ickenham is requiring a Cover Manager/ to join their team.Work pattern: 20 hours per week, Term time plus 5 INSET days (38.6 weeks /193 days). Salary information: salary NJC scale 5, scale point 12 pro-rata salary: £14,248 pa (FTE £30,033). Hours of work: Monday - Friday, 7.00am - 11am Specific Responsibilities? To ensure cover is organised on a daily basis and that disruption to students’ learning due to staff absence is minimised.? Be the first point of receipt for completed staff absence forms and circulate to SLT.? Maintain a diary and SIMS cover 7 package showing anticipated teaching staff absence. Alert the Assistant Headteacher if requests cannot be reasonably accommodated.? Download daily unexpected staff absence messages from voicemail, add absence to list and arrange subsequent cover.? Plan the deployment of cover staff – cover supervisors, supply teachers and in-house staff – to ensure all classes are covered.? Contact supply teachers and supply agencies to engage short term teachers within the constraints of established policy.? In conjunction with the Recruitment Manager, to contact supply agencies to recruit long term supply teachers and negotiate rates of pay.? Collect, collate and maintain a file of written confirmation from agencies providing all DBS disclosure information and overseas police checks.? Prepare the daily cover sheet and display in the staffroom before 8.00am.? Make any necessary emergency cover arrangements during the day in the event a teacher becomes unavailable at short notice.? To keep the short term supply budget under review during the year and to flag a potential overspend with the member of SLT responsible for cover.? Liaise with Examinations Officer over cover requirements during exam periods. Plan, record and communicate necessary room changes.? Build and maintain good relationships with agencies to ensure good quality staff are employed.? Keep up to date on legislation regarding cover issues in schools.? Produce any additional data about staff absence and cover statistics that might be reasonably required.? Record support staff absence on SIMS.? To approve or reject proposed school trip dates, focusing on lesson cover which will be required on the day.? Working in conjunction with HR Manager maintain records of support staff absence.? To undertake other administrative duties, including for the wider school community, as may reasonably be required from time to time.Line Management? Formal line management of up to 3 cover supervisors. This includes conducting annual appraisals, target setting and carrying out a mid-year review? Meet with each cover supervisor informally on a fortnightly basis to discuss any issues of concern and to protectively seek resolution of these, or raise them formally with the AHT with responsibility for cover.

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