Cover Supervisor (Grade 7)
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 4AY12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
3 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Usually 33.25 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £31,067 and £35,235pa
Actual salary
- Between £24,228 and £27,478
What skills and experience we're looking for
Training, qualifications and experience
- Level 2 or equivalent in English and mathematics
- Qualified teacher status
- Recognised subject specific degree or equivalent
- Experience of working with or caring for children of secondary school age
- Experience of working in a school environment
- Effective use of data to inform appropriate actions
- Professional knowledge and understanding
- Current educational issues especially those related to the curriculum at KS3 and KS4
- Effective strategies for promoting positive pupil behaviour
Vision and values
- Christian commitment as indicated by membership of a church in Churches Together, Evangelical Alliance or The North West Partnership
- Willingness to support and reinforce the ethos of a church school
Personal and professional qualities
- Hard working, loyal and flexible in approach to work
- Build and maintain effective relationships
- Inspire and motivate others to carry the school’s vision forward
- Prioritise, plan and organise themselves and others
- Demonstrate commitment to on-going learning and professional development
- Listen to and reflect on feedback
- Good attendance and punctuality record and a high level of stamina and enthusiasm
- Good communication skills and a positive outlook
What the school offers its staff
Main Purpose
To supervise whole classes of pupils, in the absence of the teacher, and ensure that the work set is completed to an appropriate standard. To establish supportive and constructive relationships with pupils and staff. To uphold the vision and values of the school.
Key Responsibilities:
- To support the ethos of this Church of England high school
- To assist in providing a purposeful, orderly and supportive environment for learning
- To assist pupils with tasks as needed, taking account of information provided of individual needs and reasonable adjustments for pupils (e.g. SEND/vulnerable within lessons)
- To access the school’s Management Information System (Synergy), including the input of data relating to the behaviour of pupils
- To promote good behaviour, dealing promptly with incidents in line with established policies, encouraging pupils to take responsibility for their behaviour
- To collect completed work and return to the teacher
- To provide feedback to teachers on pupils’ achievement and behaviour
- To work within school policies and procedures
- To work withpupil support to develop and deliver resources to close gaps in learning for individual pupils.
- To share in the cover for absent non-teaching colleagues if not required to cover for teachers
- To build a bank of suitable teaching materials which could be used where the teacher is unable to provide it
- To attend staff training/meetings as appropriate, particularly in relation Safeguarding, and Health and Safety
- To be called upon to perform other duties that the headmaster considers reasonable and that are commensurate with the grading and description of this post
Commitment to safeguarding
St Christopher’s CE High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to vacancies@st-christophers.org
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
- School type
- Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1313 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- vacancies@st-christophers.org
St Christopher’s is a highly successful and popular 11-18 co-educational Church of England single academy with 1,300 pupils and students on roll. We are situated in the Lancashire town of Accrington close to the Ribble Valley. Good motorway links mean that Preston, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, and North Yorkshire are all within a 30–40-minute car journey. The school is situated in a pleasant setting with views towards Pendle Hill.
Our pupils come from a wide catchment area. Pupils join us in Year 7 from over fifty primary schools, and the sixth form receives students from around thirty secondary schools. We enjoy an enviable reputation, built-up over many years, for providing high quality education for a comprehensive intake of pupils. Our reputation means that we are a popular school, and always over-subscribed. However, we do not allow ourselves to become complacent, always striving for higher standards in all areas. This year, for example, well over 800 applications were received for the 195 on offer. Ten per cent of our pupils are eligible for the Pupil Premium and 3% are from minority ethnic groups.
Our teaching comprises of 80 teachers and 12 teaching assistants. The core Senior Leadership Team is substantively the headmaster, one Deputy Headteacher, one Senior Assistant Headteachers, three Assistant Headteachers, and the school Business Manager.
The school’s commitment to learning extends to staff as well as pupils; there is a well-developed support structure for early career teachers and other new members of staff, and a strong culture of ongoing professional development among our teaching and support staff. We are continually looking to develop and further improve the quality of teaching and teachers are encouraged to think deeply about how pupils learn. Whilst we appreciate the contribution that technology can play in assisting learning, we remain committed to the idea that it is the teacher who makes the difference.
Arranging a visit to Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email vacancies@st-christophers.org.
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