Cover Supervisor

Cirencester Deer Park School, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1XB

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  Tuesday 2 September 2025

• Closing date

  14 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  2 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Cover Supervisor
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £15,582.00 - £17,210.00 Annually (Actual)

Cover Supervisor job summary

We are seeking to appoint a new Part Time Cover Supervisor to join our existing Cover Supervisor Team from 2 September 2025, subject to the necessary employment checks and any notice period required. The successful applicant will deliver pre-planned learning materials to pupils in the classroom, covering for absent colleagues. Cover Supervisors are responsible for management of classroom behaviour during these periods. They are not responsible for planning, assessment and marking of pupil work. If not required for cover lessons, Cover Supervisors assist teaching staff by acting as classroom assistants or providing administrative assistance. The successful applicant will work term time only for 24 hours per week, 6 hours per day, working from 8.45am - 3.45pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with an unpaid morning and lunch break, covering up to 5 one hour lessons per day.

The school's values of Trust, Kindness and Determination underpin all we do. Our pupils enjoy their learning in a disruption free environment, and staff are proud to work here. Following our Ofsted inspection in January 2023, Cirencester Deer Park School continues to be a good school. Inspectors noted that:

• “Pupils welcome leaders’ high expectations of their behaviour and conduct… Pupils enjoy their learning and feel well prepared for the future.”
• “Pupils behave well in lessons and benefit from learning without low-level disruption from others.”
• “Staff are proud to work at the school. They feel well supported by leaders in respect of workload, well-being and managing pupils’ behaviour.”

As a high performing comprehensive school in the South Cotswolds, Cirencester Deer Park School is committed to providing outstanding education and developing our staff. A full induction programme is in place to support all new staff at Deer Park and across The Corinium Education Trust. Further information about our school can be found on our website and prospective candidates would be welcome to contact Allison Boucher, Co-Heads' PA to arrange a visit to the school, ahead of the application deadline. A letter to applicants, further information about the role of Cover Supervisor and an application form are all available via the website along with a privacy notice for applicants. Completed application forms should reach the school no later than 9am on Monday 14 July 2025. It is our intention to shortlist candidates for interview by the end of Monday 14 July and interviews are provisionally set to take place on Thursday 17 July 2025.

We are committed to the safeguarding of our pupils and employment is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, receipt of satisfactory references, and completion of a three month probationary period.

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

We are committed to the safeguarding of our pupils and employment is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and the receipt of satisfactory references.

Our Ofsted Report in January 2023 confirmed: "Leaders have established a strong culture of safeguarding. Appropriate checks are made on adults working in the school. Staff understand the priority that should be given to safeguarding. They receive effective training and report concerns about pupils or adults appropriately."

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 Cirencester Deer Park School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1017 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cirencester Deer Park School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cirencester-deer-park-school-cirencester

As a high performing comprehensive school with 1000 pupils in the South Cotswolds, Cirencester Deer Park School is committed to providing outstanding education and developing our staff. Having initially converted to an Academy in April 2011, we are now a leading member of The Corinium Education Trust, the first ‘mixed’ Multi-Academy Trust in Gloucestershire which brings together a large secondary, community primary and church schools; the leaders of which are ambitious for their pupils’ learning and life chances and are committed to continuous school improvement.

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