Cover Manager

Manor School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 6PA

18 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  31 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  13 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,989.00 - £26,403.00 Annually (FTE)

Cover Manager job summary

Hours: 7.30-3.00pm with 1/2 hour for lunch daily

Weeks per year: 39

The Role:

Manor School are looking for a Cover Manager to ensure high-quality cover is provided for classes in the absence of a teacher and work closely and pro-actively with HR regarding the coordination of staff absence.

Key Tasks:

• The proactive management and allocation of cover for the planned and unplanned absence of teaching staff, to ensure the appropriate deployment of teachers, supply staff and cover supervisors to cover absences and emergencies
• Ensuring all orders and bookings for cover and supply are uploaded to the finance system, PSF Finance; maintain and update as appropriate
• Checking and signing off all supply invoices
• Acting as an additional Cover Supervisor following school protocols for registration and cover lessons
• The day-to-day line management and appraisal of the Cover Supervisor team, including the organisation of weekly meetings with the cover team to identify issues and resolve them

About You:

You will need

• GCSE English and Maths
• Experience working within an administrative or clerical role
• A sound grasp of the concept of inclusive practice
• Awareness of child protection issues
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent IT skills - in particular Microsoft Work, Excel, PowerPoint, and databases

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Manor School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 967 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Manor School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/manor-school-wellingborough

Our mission is ‘Success for All’ - within our school and Trust communities, fulfilled through our determination for raising aspirations and developing character within a positive environment. We are passionate about inspiring our students to be confident, ambitious, and successful individuals. We teach and promote our school values of Resilience, Empathy, Aspiration, Curiosity and Humanity. From these, students are able display the virtues of kindness, gratitude, self-discipline, and personal responsibility. We have the highest expectations of our students and unashamedly uphold a warm professional culture. Within our community, students and staff are known, valued, developed, and supported to be successful and happy. This ensures our students are polite, kind to each other and work hard.

We are blessed to spend our days with wonderful children. But don’t just take our word for it…come and see for yourself! We encourage you to visit Manor School.

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