15 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    01 September 2025

  • Closing date

    9 July 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    24 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Cover Supervisor

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£11,971.00 - £13,626.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Salary Scale 9 - 17

Cover Supervisor job summary

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and competent Cover Supervisor who will work well as part of a team who truly want the best from our students. If you enjoy working with young people and would like to help them prepare for their future working lives we would like to hear from you.

Cover Supervisor

  • NJC Scale Point: 9 - 17
  • Actual salary: £11,971 to £13,626 per annum
  • 19.5 Hours per week (Mon, Tues, Thurs), Term Time Only
  • Fixed term Maternity Cover, ending: July 2026

Due to our increasing PAN and student numbers, we are excited to offer the opportunity to join our academy as our staff body continues to grow and support our larger year groups of 220 students. This is an exciting time to join our academy as we celebrate our Outstanding Academy Inspection in November 2023. Inspectors stated that Bristnall Hall Academy is a “truly inclusive and harmonious school” and that “everyone is proud to be part of a close-knit school community that is working together with a common purpose.” Our staff “feel valued” and our classrooms “ooze enthusiasm and productivity”.

We are seeking to appoint an efficient and organised individual, with a real drive to enhance students’ experience of secondary education. The ideal candidate will be an ambitious professional with the ability to provide effective cover supervision for absent teachers, to ensure continuity of student education, as well as providing additional support for other activities, including invigilation and administration.

The successful candidate will join an academy which is dynamic and inspiring, creating a culture of outstanding success amongst our students. As a key member of the team, you will supervise and instruct students in line with teachers’ guidance, to help maintain curriculum requirements. This role requires GCSE grade 4/C+ in English and Maths or equivalent and successful recent experience of working with young people, preferably in an educational environment.

We are keen to secure a high calibre professional who can make a telling contribution to our team. The department is part of a well led, mutually supportive team; there is a very strong commitment to improving standards. The appointed candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues and will be supported by a strong SLT.

Why choose Bristnall Hall Academy? We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.

In return, you can expect fantastic Professional Development opportunities, a comprehensive employee benefits package, shopping discounts, cycle-to-work and gym schemes, cinema tickets and an employee assistance programme.

Bristnall Hall Academy is sponsored by Academy Transformation Trust, whose mission is to transform learning, aspirations and opportunities for their pupils and the communities in which they live. This commitment also extends to staff who are key to their success.

To learn more and apply online, please see our application pack for more information and visit our careers page.


Closing date for applications: Wednesday 09 July 2025, 9.00am

Interview date: To be confirmed

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

Commitment to safeguarding

Bristnall Hall Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE update 2024.

We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications. We are open to Flexible Working.

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About Bristnall Hall Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1082 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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Bristnall Hall Academy is part of the Academy Transformation Trust family of academies.

Bristnall Hall Academy is an 11-16, unique community academy with an extensive offering supported by a strong reputation for partnerships and inclusivity. We are a thriving and oversubscribed academy with a well-established reputation for outcomes for students. In 2022, our Progress 8 of +0.84 made us the highest performing Academy in Sandwell again.

We are on a journey of rapid transformation toward outstanding and this is indicated in our latest Ofsted inspection in November 2021, where Ofsted validated the significant progress Bristnall Hall Academy has made beyond the realms of Good and not instead, has ‘sufficient evidence of improved performance to suggest that it might be judged Outstanding’.

We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life. Whilst other schools and academies often comment on their struggles with recruiting quality, specialist staff, Bristnall Hall has retained and recruited successfully. From this term, we have even more outstanding teachers who will further strengthen our remarkable team.

We have a key focus on staff well-being, with a number of initiatives in place across the academy including bespoke departmental marking and assessment policies which have dramatically reduced teacher workload. If you want to inspire, aspire and achieve, come and join something special and make your mark.

We aim to provide our young people with the qualifications, skills and attributes to have a successful and happy life.

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