Cover Supervisor
St John's Marlborough, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 4AX15 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2025
Closing date
8 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
23 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time, full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,598.00 - £31,022.00 Annually (Actual) up to 30 hours per week - term time only (39 weeks)
Cover Supervisor job summary
Cover Supervisor
Hours of work: 30 hours per week
Working weeks: 39 weeks per year (38 plus 5 SDD days)
Paid weeks: 44.85 paid weeks
Working pattern: 8.10am - 3.10pm (30 min break - unpaid)
Start Date: November 2025
Contract type: Fixed-term
Salary scale point: 12 - 17 (FT - £28, 598 - £31,022)
Please note starting point on the pay scale is subject to skills and experience.
Purpose of the Job
To provide a cover service for absent teachers, supervising classes/groups of students and ensuring that they carry out the work tasks set by the teacher with designated responsibility.
Key Job Outcomes
1. Support for children’s learning
The postholder will ensure that students carry out curriculum tasks set by the teacher and assist students in understanding the nature of these tasks in order to minimise the effect of the teacher’s absence upon the student’s learning.
To enable students to overcome barriers to learning, providing a complementary service to existing teaching staff and ensuring that students access the help they need
To encourage students in their learning by acting as a positive role model and by recognising possible obstacles to achievement
To communicate with teaching staff in order to monitor the progress of students and to update them on this
To ensure the effective monitoring and record keeping of any activity, including records of targets and outcomes
To attend relevant meetings and training
Support for the learning environment
The postholder will keep the learning environment secure and endeavour to leave classrooms as found.
Care and support for children
The postholder will act on behalf of the teacher in ensuring (1) the health and safety of students in the classroom and (2) equal and fair access to learning opportunities.
This job description sets out the key outcomes required. It does not specify in detail the activities required to achieve these outcomes.
General Accountabilities
So far as reasonably practicable, the postholder must promote safe working practices by employees, and in premises/work areas for which the postholder is responsible, to maintain a safe working environment for employees and service users. These are defined in the Excalibur employment manual.
Work in compliance with the employment manual, and its commitment to equal opportunities
Ensure that output and quality of work is of a high standard and complies with current legislation / standards
Excalibur Academies Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The Trust is proud to serve a diverse student and parent community. The aims of the Trust's recruitment policy are to ensure that the best possible staff are recruited on the basis of their merits, abilities and suitability for the position; to ensure that all job applicants are considered equally and consistently; to ensure that no job applicant is treated unfairly on any grounds including race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or religious belief, sex or sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, disability or age; and to ensure that the School meets its commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people by carrying out all necessary pre-employment checks.
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 St John's Marlborough
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1712 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St John's Marlborough website
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