Cover Supervisor
Saint Benedict, A Catholic Voluntary Academy, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 1JD19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
2 November 2026 at 8am
Date listed
29 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £23,155.00 - £24,981.00 Annually (Actual) Band 3, SCP 6 - 9
Cover Supervisor job summary
Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy are seeking to appoint a Cover Supervisor to join our busy school. As our cover supervisor, you will be responsible for ensuring that students have a high-quality learning experience when their usual teacher is away from school.
You’ll create a purposeful, positive learning environment, guide students through pre-prepared work, and help them stay focused and engaged so their learning never misses a beat.
If you’re passionate about supporting young people, committed to helping them achieve their potential, and excited to be part of a warm, faith‑centred community, we’d love to hear from you.
This is your chance to take on a dynamic role leading lessons across KS3 and KS4, with occasional opportunities to work with KS5, and to contribute to the wider life of our welcoming Academy.
You will manage classroom behaviour to ensure pupils stay on task and facilitate the activities that have been designed by teaching staff to ensure that students complete the work in an effective learning environment.
This is a permanent role, working for 37 hours per week, term time only.
You Will:
- Provide a high-quality customer focused management administrative service within the main school office
- Supervise the students in KS3 and KS4 working on pre-set learning activities in the absence of a teacher.
- Be caring and supportive and committed to achieving excellent results.
- Have a belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can achieve exceptional things.
- Promote the well-being of our student’s providing guidance and support and be able to inspire learning and progress.
- Be resilient and determined, and confident in talking to large groups of young people.
In return, we can offer a supportive working environment, with access to regular high quality research-based CPD, excellent standards of behaviour, and a commitment to eliminating unnecessary workload.
About us
Situated in the beautiful Darley Abbey area on the outskirts of Derby, Saint Benedict is the city’s only Catholic Secondary school. We serve a wonderfully diverse community of students who come from over forty countries around the world and who come from all parts of Derby and beyond.
We are most proud of the fact that our rapid improvement in outcomes has been in an inclusive and supportive environment, as Ofsted described ‘a distinctive feature of pupils’ behaviour in this school is their sense of a community and the care that they extend towards one another’. In addition to setting out a clear vision for school improvement we work hard to ensure that every child has their needs fully met by our outstanding SENCO and our Inclusion Team. As a community of professionals we are also highly supportive of one another.
Being part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust
On 1st September 2018, the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust, part of the Diocese of Nottingham, brought together 25 Catholic schools located in Derby City, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Stockport together in partnership, to ensure the very best spiritual, social and academic experiences and outcomes for the young people in our schools.
Everything we do is to better the lives and futures of our children, providing access to first-class teaching, both academically and spiritually and we are united by our collective vision to excel.
Why work for the St Ralph Sherwin Multi Academy Trust?
A summary of our fantastic benefits are as follows:
- Access to first class CPD opportunities. We also work in partnership with Nottingham Teaching School Alliance to deliver meaningful and relevant CPD. Our Leadership Academy identifies and develops future leaders.
- Genuine opportunities for career progression - with 25 academies in our family, and 84 academies across the Diocese, opportunities for career progression are a reality.
- Professional assistance - you will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential, independent and unbiased information and guidance 24/7. If clinically advisable, it also offers face-to-face counselling sessions.
- Pension - automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, generous employer contributions.
- Terms and Conditions - we have committed to following nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.
For more information about our Trust and our Academies, please visit St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust - SRSCMAT
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Please note that the closing date may be brought forward depending upon interest.
Further information about the job
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.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Saint Benedict, A Catholic Voluntary Academy
- Organisation type
- Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1465 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
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