Cover Assistant

Princes Risborough School, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 0DR

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  June 2025

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,790.00 - £25,519.00 Annually (Actual)

Cover Assistant job summary

PRINCES RISBOROUGH SCHOOL

Part of the Insignis Academy Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to join our successful, vibrant school community as a

Cover Assistant

37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

Bucks Pay Range 3

Permanent/Full-Time

Actual annual salary £23,790 - £25,519

(Equivalent to £28,129 - £30,174 for full time)

Closing Date: Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Start Date: June 2025

Are you a highly motivated person who is passionate about teaching young minds? Are you committed to helping our students to achieve their full potential through high quality supervision of classes? Do you want to join us on our journey to becoming an outstanding school? If so, this could be the job for you.

We’re looking to appoint a Cover Assistant who will strive to help every child succeed. You would be responsible for providing lesson supervision in an education setting and ensure effective learning takes place. You will have excellent communication and time management skills and a good knowledge of secondary education. As we work tirelessly to improve you will actively get involved with our ongoing efforts to become an outstanding school.

We can offer you

Our school motto is “Aspire and Achieve” and that is what we want for all our students and staff members. We are committed to the highest expectations in everything we do with a relentless focus on dynamic teaching and learning leading to excellent academic outcomes for all students.

We are located in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and offer a rich, positive and supportive learning environment with outstanding continuing professional development and career opportunities. We have an exciting opportunity for a Design and Technology Technician to join our dedicated team.

For any enquiries relating to the position please contact the Trust’s Human Resources Team, either by email recruitment@insignis.org.uk or by telephone 01296 744351, who will be happy to help.

Insignis Academy Trust operates rigorous ‘safer recruitment’ practices and the successful candidates will be required to undertake a criminal record check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 22nd April 12 noon

We encourage and value candidates who have varied lived experiences and inclusive mindsets, either due to their engagements in the world or due to their protected characteristics (as set out in the Equalities Act 2010). We are committed to continued development of a community that is representative of the environment in which we work and in nurturing an equitable society.

The Insignis Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified deadline if a suitable candidate is found.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Princes Risborough School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1111 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Princes Risborough School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/princes-risborough-school

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