Cover Supervisor

Colne Primet Academy, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 8JF

46 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  15 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  29 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time (Can be done as a job share)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade 6, SCP 11-19

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications and Attainments

4 x GCSEs at grade C or 4, including Maths and English, or equivalent Level 2 Numeracy and Literacy qualification Essential

Level 2 Childcare qualification or equivalent, e.g. CACHE, NVQ L2, NNEB Desirable

Level 3 Childcare or Teaching and Learning qualification Desirable

Degree Desirable

Knowledge

Experience of working with children in an education or childcare environment Essential

Understanding of classroom roles and responsibilities Essential

Ability and confidence to assist pupils with basic numeracy and literacy in line with learning strategies and national curriculum Essential

Experience of basic administrative tasks Desirable

Experienced/trained firstaider Desirable

What the school offers its staff

Now is a really exciting time to be joining Colne Primet Academy as we go through a period of rapid expansion, both in terms of staff and student numbers and with extensive new building and refurbishment work recently completed and opened from September 2024.

We currently have 875 students on roll from a diverse range of backgrounds, and the students numbers continue to grow up to our full capacity of 1050 over the next few years. Throughout the school, we have students who speak 23 different languages. Working with such a diverse community brings lots of opportunities for students to learn more about each other and themselves.

By joining the Primet family you will become part of a supportive and ambitious team. The core drive of being part of the Primet staff team is about wanting the best for our students, and to help them overcome any barriers to their success. Our aim here at Colne Primet Academy is to give each and every child the very best educational start in life. At all times, we guide, support and inspire.

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.

Our cover supervisors work as a team to deliver lessons within our study room, with potentially up to 5 classes within this space when needed. This enables students to receive a consistent and high quality learning experience when their normal class teachers are not available. Students are used to this established routine, and understand the systems and expectations of the room, ensuring they are able to get the most out of these lessons and complete as much learning as possible within the hours lesson. The cover supervisors coordinate and feedback on the work completed being returned to the correct teachers, so this can then be followed up in their next lesson. Some lessons will still be covered as individual classes within classrooms, this is mainly where specialist resources are needed such as for computing lessons.

Commitment to safeguarding

https://pendleeducationtrust.co.uk/safeguarding-and-child-protection/587.html

Applying for the job

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About Colne Primet Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 858 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Colne Primet Academy website
• Email address: hr@pendleeducationtrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/colne-primet-academy

Colne Primet Academy became part of the Pendle Education Trust family in 2013 and has experienced transformational change across all areas since then. Former Principal Lynne Blomley has now moved into an Executive Principal for Secondary Education role with the Trust, and the Academy is led by Julia Pilkington.

The school was named Secondary School of the Year at the 2021 East Lancashire Education Awards.

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