Cover Supervisor

Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD

12 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  8 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £33,127.00 - £35,106.00 Annually (FTE) NJC Scale 5, Points 11-15 (FTE £33,127 - £35,106 per annum)

Cover Supervisor job summary

Orion Education is seeking a committed and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join the team at Orion Eden Park. Working under the direction of the Cover Manager, you will supervise classes during the short-term absence of teaching staff, delivering pre-planned lessons and ensuring students remain engaged, focused, and productive in their learning.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about education and supporting young people. You will play an important part in maintaining high standards of behaviour, attendance, and achievement, while fostering an inclusive environment where every student can thrive. As a Form Tutor, you will also contribute to students' personal development, wellbeing, and pastoral support, building positive relationships with students, colleagues, parents, and carers.

At Orion Education, our values of Trust, Kindness and Endeavour underpin everything we do. We are looking for a candidate who shares these values, is committed to safeguarding and inclusion, and is eager to make a positive difference to the lives of young people while developing their own professional experience within a supportive and ambitious Trust.

Early Closure Disclaimer

Orion Education reserves the right to interview and appoint candidates prior to the closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to submit their application as soon as possible, as this vacancy may close early should a suitable candidate be appointed.

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

Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.

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 Orion Eden Park

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1148 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Orion Eden Park website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/eden-park-high-school

Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.

In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.

Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.

We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.

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