Cover Manager
Ivybridge Community College, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21 0JA13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2027
Closing date
23 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
9 November 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £27,926.00 - £30,997.00 Annually (Actual)
Cover Manager job summary
Job Title: Cover Manager
Terms: Part-Time, Permanent
Salary: £27,926 - £30,997
Location: Ivybridge Community College
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Trust at Ivybridge Community College.
Hours Per Week: 37
Weeks Per Year: 41
Please note: This post is contracted for 37 hours per week over 41 weeks per year. During school term time, the normal working pattern will be 7.00am-3.45pm Monday to Friday, including a one-hour unpaid lunch break each day (38.75 working hours per week). The remaining contractual hours are arranged across INSET and other agreed working days.
The Cover Coordinator supports the effective operation of the trust and works to uphold and promote its vision and values.
The primary purpose of the role is to lead the planning, coordination and delivery of teaching cover arrangements across the College, ensuring that disruption to learning is minimised and staffing and accommodation resources are utilised efficiently.
The postholder will manage both planned and unplanned staff absence, coordinating internal and external cover solutions, overseeing the deployment of Cover Supervisors and supply staff, and working closely with senior leaders, curriculum leaders and the Timetable Coordinator to ensure effective operational delivery.
The Cover Manager will also provide classroom cover when required. However, the principal focus of the role remains the effective management and coordination of the College's cover provision.
Working for the Trust includes some key benefits, please see our website for full details.
For an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact HR on 01752 691000.
If you believe you can demonstrate the dedication, skills and passion required, we look forward to receiving your application.
Information about our key policies is available at: https://www.westst.org.uk/our-policies (this includes our DBS Policy, Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, and Recruitment and Selection Policy).
Ivybridge Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment; therefore, all posts will be subject to a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure and all other relevant pre-employment checks.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Ivybridge Community College
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 2262 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
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