Cover Supervisor (part-time)
Tonbridge Grammar School, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 2JR20 days remaining to apply
Closing date
2 November 2026 at 9am
Date listed
13 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £7,644.00 Annually (Actual) £25,437 FTE (actual £7,644) per annum
Cover Supervisor (part-time) job summary
We are seeking an efficient, well-organised and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join our committed and hard-working cover team. This is a permanent role working 2 days a week (Thursday and Friday), term time only.
Join our friendly Cover Team
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting students' learning by supervising lessons in the absence of teaching staff. Working closely with colleagues across the school, you will help ensure that learning continues productively and that high standards of behaviour, engagement and achievement are maintained.
In addition to supervising whole classes, the role may include:
- Supporting individual students and small groups with their learning
- Assisting with the administration and invigilation of internal and external examinations
- Undertaking supervisory duties as required
- Providing administrative support to curriculum departments
- Carrying out other reasonable duties commensurate with the role, as directed by the Line Manager
This position would suit a confident and adaptable individual with excellent communication and organisational skills, who is committed to supporting students to achieve their full potential.
Staff wellbeing
We are committed to staff wellbeing and offer a range of benefits, including:
Free use of our Fitness suite
Staff wellbeing package including winter flu jabs
Ample parking/electric car charging
Cycle to work scheme
Active staff community and social
Tonbridge Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online checks on shortlisted candidates. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We reserve the right to interview before the closing date
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Tonbridge Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education legislation. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Tonbridge Grammar School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1150 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Tonbridge Grammar School; a high performing state grammar school in Kent
Educating girls aged 11 to 16 years and with a co-ed sixth form, TGS regularly features in listings of the top ranked schools in the South East and the UK. In our most recent Ofsted inspection in 2024, inspectors judged that Tonbridge Grammar School maintained the standards identified in their 2019 inspection; ‘outstanding for overall effectiveness’. We have a vibrant enrichment programme and wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do. There is a real sense of community with staff, students and parents/carers working together.
TGS is situated in Kent ‘the garden of England’, close to Royal Tunbridge Wells. This location is ideal for trips to London and you will also find beautiful countryside on your doorstep. Excellent transport links to both London and the coast.
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