CASUAL SUPPLY TEACHER

Salary: MPS - paid on an hourly or daily rate

Contract: Casual contract – as and when required      

Start date:  As soon as possible

Place of work:  Comberton Village College            

Place

We are a highly successful, community mixed comprehensive school with Teaching School status in a pleasant rural setting only 5 miles from the centre of Cambridge. We currently have around 2000 11-18 pupils on roll including our sixth form centre that opened in September 2011. 

Our pupils are well motivated, staff morale is excellent and examination results at KS4 and KS5 were outstanding: both attainment and progress measures regularly put the school in the top 5% of all state comprehensive schools. The school has consistently been rated by Ofsted as outstanding over very many years – our most recent Ofsted (November 2024) achieved ‘outstanding’ in all categories. 

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding casual supply Teacher to join our successful and supportive team of teachers.  The successful candidate will need to be an enthusiastic, inspiring and motivating teacher who can demonstrate excellent knowledge and will ensure students have high aspirations and achieve their best. The post is suitable for ECTs or more experienced teachers. 

Day-to-day duties for a Cover Teacher include: 

• Supervising pupils, ensuring they are engaged in the classwork.  

• Encouraging pupils to interact.  

• Helping pupils to become more independent in their learning.  

• Establishing trust with pupils, interacting with them according to individual needs.  

• Assisting pupils with tasks as needed.  

• Creating a safe, positive, supportive classroom environment.  

• Promoting good behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established policies, encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their behaviour.  

• Collecting completed work and returning it to the teacher.  

• Assisting with the supervision of pupils before and after school and at break times.  

• Providing feedback to teachers on pupil’s achievement, progress, and if any problems.  

• Upholding policies and procedures related to child protection, health and confidentiality, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person. 

For further details on our school please visit our website www.combertonvc.org.