Admin Support with Cover Supervision
Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
23 November 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade 4 (SCP 6-11) | Actual Salary: £19,635 - £21,262
What skills and experience we're looking for
Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall
Permanent, Term-Time Only (32.5 hours per week)
NJC Pay Scale, Grade 4 (SCP 6-11) | Actual Salary: £19,635 - £21,262
About the Role
Queen Mary’s High School is seeking a reliable, enthusiastic, and flexible individual to join our vibrant and diverse school community as an Admin Support with Cover Supervision. This is a rewarding opportunity to support both students and staff in a successful, oversubscribed selective girls’ grammar school.
You will provide curriculum cover supervision for classes or groups of pupils whose usual teacher is absent, facilitating lessons at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. When not providing cover, you will offer clerical and administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team and Subject Leaders.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise classes during teacher absence, ensuring a positive and conducive learning environment.
- Liaise with staff regarding cover work, reporting on progress and behaviour.
- Support student learning and uphold the school’s ethos and high expectations.
- Provide administrative support, including managing financial assistance and bursaries systems.
- Assist with school events, reception cover, and act as a first aider.
- Accompany pupils on trips and educational activities as required.
About You
Essential:
- Grade C/4 or above in English and Maths at GCSE (or equivalent).
- Good computer and administrative skills, with experience in MS Office, Word, and Excel.
- Strong organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and able to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Commitment to the values and ethos of Queen Mary’s High School, including safeguarding and equality.
Desirable:
- Experience in a school or educational setting.
- Experience in school administration.
Full training will be provided, and we welcome applications from candidates at all levels of experience.
Key Information
- Hours: 32.5 per week, Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4pm (term time only, including INSET days)
- Salary: Actual £19,635 - £21,262 (FTE £25,989 - £28,142)
- Closing Date: Sunday 23rd November 2025
- Interview Date: Friday 28th November 2025
How to Apply
Please complete and submit the Mercian Trust online application form, along with a supporting statement outlining how your experience and expertise match the requirements of the role.
For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact the school at 01922 721013 or email qmarys@qmhs.merciantrust.org.uk.
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.
What the school offers its staff
Our Offer
- A supportive and committed staff team.
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
- Access to a comprehensive health plan, employee assistance programme, and cycle to work scheme.
- A dynamic and forward-thinking working environment.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.
Applying for the job
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About Queen Mary's High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 944 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Queen Mary's High School website
- Email address
- lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk
Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.
Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.
We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.
Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.
Arranging a visit to Queen Mary's High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk.
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