Cover Supervisor - Fixed Term

The Aylesbury Vale Academy, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0WS

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  19 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  4 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,424.00 - £33,735.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary will reflect working pattern of 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

Cover Supervisor - Fixed Term job summary

The Aylesbury Vale Academy is a large, vibrant and warm community of over 200 staff. Staff wellbeing, happiness and job satisfaction is essential to ensuring the school achieves its goals. We value our staff and provide a welcoming and supportive working environment in which they can develop as professionals and progress in their careers. We are committed to our status as a workplace signed up to the DfE Wellbeing Charter and continuously review our practices to improve school culture and workload.

Cover Supervisors are responsible for the management of classes when the regular teacher is absent and during PPA sessions. They are accountable for ensuring that learning is taking place and all students are making progress. You will be required to oversee classes across the full range of subjects although individual strengths will be utilised where possible. When cover is not required, Cover Supervisors support in a range of other activities such a development of teaching resources in individual curriculum areas or assisting in the SEN Department.

Candidates must have experience of working with children and young adults.

Numeracy and literacy skills, equivalent to GCSE Grade C in Maths and English are essential. Candidates must possess effective communication and organisational skills, competence in the use of ICT to support teaching and learning, ability to work with minimum supervision within a team and ability to manage students in a classroom setting.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.

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 The Aylesbury Vale Academy

• School type: Academies, Church of England, ages 3 to 19
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: 1831 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Aylesbury Vale Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-aylesbury-vale-academy

Thank you for expressing your interest in the post of Teacher of IT. This is a school where we aim to go beyond the expected to ensure that students' life chances are enhanced.

We are proud of our non-selective, fully inclusive status and believe that children and young people, regardless of their background, ability or circumstances can thrive and succeed here. That is why we place respect, aspiration and resilience at the heart of everything we do.

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