27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    30 April 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    25 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£22,471.00 - £24,099.00 Annually (Actual) PS6 £29,697 - £31,848 Full Time Equivalent salary - pay award pending

Cover Supervisor job summary

PS6 £29,697 - £31,848 Pro rata will be £ 22,471 - £24,099

Hours of work 32.5 a week over 5 days for 38 weeks per year

We seek a confident and motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and listening skills with a commitment to helping each student achieve their full potential alongside maintaining an effective environment.

The Cover Supervisor will, after appropriate training, supervise the learning in classes for teachers who are absent for short periods. The classes will have been set work by their usual teacher. The successful applicant will directly supervise classes and lead lessons during the short-term absence of teachers. The Cover Supervisor will give instructions for the work as provided by a teacher, with the primary focus of creating a positive learning environment, maintaining order, keeping students on task and supporting them to complete their work.

Right now, we are on a significant journey: our most recent academic results were less than we hoped for, so we’ve embarked on a process of transformation with new processes and a whole new level of ambition. We are revisiting the heart of learning and building the best provision around contemporary educational research to achieve great outcomes for our children.

As a small secondary school in the area, we have built a unique sense of community based on our Christian values. This a place where everyone – students and staff alike – look out for everyone else. Our children are exceptionally loyal to their teachers, yet that loyalty has to be earned, so you’ll need great people skills and a real passion for teaching and learning.

One of our greatest strengths is our exceptionally rich extracurricular programme, including the Greenpower racing team and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. In short, we do whatever it takes to realise our pupils’ potential and we’re confident we’ll soon capture your imagination.

We’re equally committed to releasing the talents of our teachers, so you can be assured that we’ll invest heavily in your professional development. Being part of the Enlighten Learning Trust, allows for unique opportunities to share best practices and pioneer innovative approaches to learning. Add in a welcoming and supportive environment and an exceptionally supportive Head who loves to collaborate, and you have all the ingredients for a challenging, stimulating and rewarding future.

You can also expect some outstanding facilities and opportunities, including a two-week October half term, access to an indoor swimming pool, and the chance to participate in overseas excursions including ski trips. What’s more, you’ll be based in elegant Dorking in the heart of the beautiful Surrey hills, with excellent travel connections and easy access to London.

If you are excited by an opportunity to make a difference and join a school that is on a journey of rapid improvement with the challenge and learning that brings, then we would love to meet and welcome you to our team.

For further information and to apply, visit thepriorycofe.com

Closing date 30 April 2025 9 am

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Shortlisted applicants will be asked to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.  It is an offence to apply for a role if applicants are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.  

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment.   For further information please refer to our Child Protection & Safeguarding policy which is available on the Enlighten Learning Trust Careers page. Any successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure check by the Disclosure and Barring Service

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 are not accepted.

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About The Priory Church of England School

School type
Academy, Church of England, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
Up to 1000 pupils
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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School location

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