Cover Manager

Oakgrove School, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK10 9JQ

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  January 2026 or as soon as recruitment checks are in place

• Closing date

  1 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  13 November 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: £25,467.00 Annually (Actual) 35 hours per week, Term time plus mandatory training and summer exam results days

Cover Manager job summary

Oakgrove School is looking to appoint a Cover Manager to join our team. This is a key post in supporting the day to day running of the school and is suitable for individuals who have the skills and qualities to manage a role that is both varied and challenging. The ability to remain calm under pressure and to multi-task is essential. The main purpose of the role is to arrange cover for absent teaching staff, manage a team of cover supervisors, liaise with external agencies and oversee supply staff. The role includes responding to both planned and ‘on the day’ staff absences.

The Cover Manager will also support wider administration of the absence system alongside administration tasks to support the work of the Senior Leadership Team.

The successful candidate will be efficient and organised, have strong interpersonal skills, be able to use their own initiative and have proven experience of high level administration. On occasion, this person may also be required to cover lessons however no previous teaching experience is required.

The working pattern for this role is 7.30am-3.00pm term time plus mandatory staff training days and attendance at summer exam results days.

Oakgrove has a reputation for achieving the highest results, for attainment and progress, in Milton Keynes for both KS4 and KS5 and we are very proud of the successes of our students. The behaviour of our students has been described as exemplary. We have a history of achieving exceptional results and destinations for our students. The staff team at Oakgrove is highly dedicated and supportive and we welcome new staff who share our ethos.

We may invite applicants to interview before the closing date. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early in the event of us receiving a large volume of applications.

For more information about the role or school, please contact hr@oakgrove.school

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.

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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 Oakgrove School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 19
• Education phase: Through
• School size: 2505 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oakgrove School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oakgrove-school-milton-keynes

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