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Cover Supervisor

Birches Head Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST2 8DD

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  1 July 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  16 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 32.5 hours per week, term time plus inset days
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19501 to £21122

What skills and experience we're looking for

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience of working in an educational environment.

Desirable:

• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.

• Understanding of individual students’ requirements.

• Understanding of the practical application of school procedures which impact on student

supervision and behaviour management.

Key Skills and Attributes

Essential:

• Enthusiasm, commitment and flexibility.

• Positive disposition towards implementing the Trust’s educational vision.

• Classroom supervision and student behaviour management skills and techniques.

What the school offers its staff

Birches Head Academy is part of the Frank Field Education Trust and we work collaboratively with others in our FFET family, allowing our students and staff many opportunities to develop. This is embodied in the FFET vision: ‘Social Justice through Excellence in Education’ and in the Academy motto: ‘Aspire to be More’. Birches Head Academy is looking to appoint a Cover Supervisor to join our dedicated staff, who will supervise classes in the absence of a teacher. The role will also include undertaking duties to support teaching and learning in subject areas, to be determined dependent on your area of expertise, supervision of students’ work and management of student behaviour.

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

Please complete the online application.

CVs are not accepted.

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.

Upload additional documents

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BHA Recruitment Pack - Cover Supervisor.pdf - 1.92 MB (opens in new tab)

Support Staff Application Form - December 2023.docx - 89.8 KB (opens in new tab)

About Birches Head Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1045 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Birches Head Academy website
• Email address: jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/birches-head-academy

This is an exciting time at the Academy, as we
have made dramatic improvements and seen
a complete culture change in recent years,
resulting in growing numbers of children
applying for places.
We are part of the Frank Field Education
Trust, providing a firm foundation to enable us
to flourish. As an Academy within the Frank
Field Education Trust, schools will particularly
benefit from the Trust’s access to services that
will improve the support we can offer to all
students and families and also from the
opportunity to work with like-minded people,
who want the best for children and young
people.
The Academy works in partnership with
a number of schools both locally and
nationally, including our primary feeder
schools and colleges to ensure all students
have the very best opportunities and
outcomes.
Our vision is to provide:
• An exceptional academic education to all
children (Intellectual Capital)
• A values led approach to education for
every child (Cultural Capital)
• The right environment for every
child to flourish by building learning
communities in partnership with parents
and carers (Social Capital)
Achieving these commitments will ensure that,
when pupils leave the Academy, they are
ready for the next step in their journey; leaving
with the necessary skills and knowledge, and
the desire to serve others, to become the next
generation of leaders.
Our determination to do this, in its fullest
sense, resonates with our Academy motto
inspired by the words of Oscar Romero
“Aspire to be More”. I have very high
aspirations for the young people at Birches
Head Academy. I want the very best for them.
I want them to ‘Aspire to be More’.
If you feel you can make a contribution
to this important enterprise and help our
children to be the best that they can be, then I
look forward to receiving your application.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy
or visit the school please contact Mrs J
Bracegirdle, Principal’s PA, by email at:
jbracegirdle@bircheshead.org.uk.
Mr Paul Masher
Principal

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