Cover Manager / Administrator
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, CA17 4HA16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
10 May 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,403.00 - £29,540.00 Annually (FTE) Grade 6-7 dependent on experience
Cover Manager / Administrator job summary
- Hours of work: 37 hours per week
- Working pattern: Monday-Friday (with a 7:30am start)
- Term weeks: Term-Time only, plus 2 weeks
- FTC term: Start date - ASAP
The ideal candidate will:
- Have secretarial/administrative experience preferably in a school based setting.
- Have excellent communication skills
- Be competent with ICT skills including use of word (including mail merge), excel and PowerPoint.
- Be friendly and approachable.
- Be able to work as part of a team.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- To organise cover for absent staff, create a daily cover rota and organise efficient and effective cover of lessons by supply staff and teachers.
- Provide cover for a broad range of duties associated within the administration function in school.
- Provide excellent customer service as the first point of contact, both face to face and via the phone for internal and external stakeholders.
This is a great opportunity to work in a well-resourced school with dedicated professionals, where no two days are the same, offering an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong administrative skills and a customer-service mindset
We can offer:
- A people first approach, ensuring that you feel part of our community
- Enhanced opportunities for collaborative working as part of a dynamic and highly successful Multi Academy Trust
- Excellent career and CPD opportunities
- A commitment to constantly review and improve our family friendly policies and look for new and innovative way to aid and support our staff in achieving a healthy work/life balance
- Employee benefits package
If you have the qualities we require, along with the passion and aspirations to contribute to the success of the School and the MAT, we urge you to hit the "Apply" button.
Cumbria Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Enhanced DBS disclosure and Barred List checks are required for this post. You should not apply if you are on the Children’s Barred List. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches are carried out on successful candidates.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and
expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening,including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. KSGS is an equal opportunities employer.Member of the South Lakes Federation.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Kirkby Stephen Grammar School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 388 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Kirkby Stephen Grammar School website
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