St Laurence School
STAFF COVER & CPD ADMINISTRATOR
Salary: NJC SCP 9 – 11 FTE £20,903 - £22,183 (pro-rata £14,389 - £17,816)
Hours: 35 hours per week (to be agreed at interview) Monday to Friday, to start at 7am on each day, 39 weeks per year (term time only)
Contract: Permanent
Start date: September 2021, or ASAP after appointment
Vacancy details:
We are looking to recruit a Staff Cover and CPD Administrator to ensure the smooth and efficient deployment of cover arrangements for teaching and other staff, and to book training courses and maintain accurate records of CPD for all staff. Experience of working with cover in a school is desirable, but not essential.
The postholder will be the first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school. There will be occasions (especially for sickness) when this will take place in the early morning. The postholder will be required to start at 7am, Monday to Friday.
Main duties will include:
• To be first point of contact to receive telephone calls from members of staff who are absent from school.
• Ensure cover is in place for staff absence because of sickness, on pre-planned courses, trips and events and hospital appointments etc.
• Manage and deploy the school’s own cover supervisors and/or external/internal supply teachers.
• Produce the daily/weekly lists of staff absences and arrangements for cover provision. This has to be available for staff by 8.15-8.30am each morning.
• Input absence data into SIMS (Schools’ Information Management System) modules. Produce reports as appropriate.
• Pass approved Student Activity and Staff CPD forms to the Attendance Officer to enter in the School’s electronic calendars as required.
• To ensure that all new external supply teachers have been successfully cleared through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
• Liaise with Assistant Headteacher (Cover) to respond to ‘emergency’ cover during the school day e.g. when staff fall ill during the day
For further details please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification
Closing date: 12pm 6th September 2021. Successful candidates will be contacted within 1 week
Interview date: w/c 13th September
St Laurence School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.