Cover Supervisor

Chellaston Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE73 5UB

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  11 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  22 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Scale 5 - £28,034 - £30,383 FTE (£24,215 - £26,244 Pro-rata)

Cover Supervisor job summary

Core Purpose:

• Supervise a prepared lesson in the absence of a class teacher ensuring that in doing so the students learning and progress is continued and maintained;
• Provide clerical and administrative support to departments; 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• In the absence of a teacher, provide leadership and supervision of and be solely responsible for a class of students during lesson time;
• Promote positive behaviour for learning of students to maintain a calm working environment, including implementation of the school’s policy; rewarding students where appropriate.
• Report back, as appropriate, on the behaviour of students during lesson time and on any arising issues, or rewards to the Curriculum Leader.
• Provide classroom management to classes in the absence of a teacher (for up to a maximum of 10 consecutive days for the same teacher, including the first 3 days of absence).
• Establish positive relationships and communicate with other relevant professionals, in liaison with the class teacher, to support student learning and progress.
• Communicate the work set by the class teacher to the students and ensure that students are aware of the teacher’s expectations during the course of the lesson with regard to learning and progress – including the homework set and any other extension/enrichment tasks.
• Motivate students to complete tasks set by the class teacher and encourage students to interact and work co-operatively with others to ensure that students are engaged on the set task.
• Respond to any questions from students about process and procedures.
• Deal with any immediate problems or emergencies in accordance with the school’s policies and procedures.
• Collect completed work after the lesson and return it to the class teacher as appropriate.
• Contribute to the administration and delivery of examination assessments
• Invigilate examinations and be available for duties at break and lunch.
• Accompany teaching staff and students on educational visits.
• Collate a bank of supervision work for subjects at KS3 and KS4 in liaison with the relevant Curriculum Leader. Cover and supervision work should be set by the Department.
• Be aware of, uphold and contribute towards the development of the school’s policies and procedures.
• Participate in appropriate school based meetings and training activities.
• Support a department with administration duties, e.g. displays etc, when not required for cover during the working day.
• Contribute to departmental improvements when it is appropriate
• Support “day to day” supply staff in locating work and help to orient.

Why work for us?

•  At QEGSMAT, we value the hard work and dedication of our team members, and as such we believe that progression should be a simple process. That’s why we are proud to offer an Automatic Pay Review program, rather than the traditional annual pay and performance review, as part of our comprehensive benefits package.
• Continual access to CPD opportunities. QEGSMAT works with a large number of organisations to develop staff to fulfil their aspirations and potential. We are committed to providing first-rate training and development to all our staff within this evolving Trust.
• We are committed to promoting equality, challenging discrimination, and developing community cohesion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
• All staff have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, which provides confidential, independent and unbiased information and guidance 24/7. This can also include bespoke counselling sessions for staff if needed.
• All roles are subject to nationally agreed terms and conditions of service.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with employer contributions of 23.4% for Derbyshire support staff.
• Family friendly policies
• Access to Flu Vaccines
• Opportunity to work flexibly
• Access to 750+ discounts on everyday essentials via our benefits package with Vivup

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.

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Chellaston Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1807 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Chellaston Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chellaston-academy

At Chellaston Academy, we believe that academic outcomes are important, and our expectation is that we will achieve national progress standards. However, we do not measure the success of our students by their examination results alone. We believe developing the whole person to be vitally important as well. Students access a balanced curriculum, and we continually strive to develop characteristics such as self-confidence, self-belief and self-esteem and make sure individual talent is recognised and nurtured.

We believe that when the school, parents/carers and students share high expectations every child will achieve great things. This includes having an excellent attitude centred on respect, high standards of appearance, good manners, full attendance and punctuality.

We believe that Chellaston Academy is a vibrant and successful school where all students thrive through our shared principles of Question, Explore, Give and Succeed.

Question – All students are given the opportunity to question who they are and why they want to be; to question their understanding and their actions. They learn how to question in a considered way, and then to listen to the response.

Explore – At Chellaston we give students opportunities and experiences, both in and beyond the classroom, educating the whole child and afforded them, looking for new ways to accomplish their goals, examining others’ values and beliefs, and exploring the world around them.

Give – At Chellaston our staff and students are expected to give their very best in all that they do; they give their time and experience to help others, always giving equal respect to all.

Succeed – We are a successful school. Success is celebrated and promoted with all members in our community. We want all of our students to succeed – individually and as part of a team – to be courageous and to succeed with good spirit and humility, developing resilience and character to succeed, even if at first, they fail.

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