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Cover Supervisor
The Sutton Academy, St Helens, Merseyside, WA9 5AU371 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
14 November 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 November 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 32.5 hours per week, term time only + 5 training days
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- £19,553 - £21,167
What skills and experience we're looking for
Salary:NJC 7-11 £26,403- £28,142(Actual Salary £19,553 - £21,167)
Hours:32.5 hours per week, term time only + 5 training days
Location:St Helens
Contract Type:Permanent
Start Date:As soon as possible
The Principal and Governors are seeking to appoint a Cover Supervisor to join the successful teaching support team at the academy. This post will involve covering teaching staff absence by delivering subject specific lessons to a range of year groups across the academy. Candidates should be passionate about providing the students at The Sutton Academy with the very best opportunities possible.
You should be an inspirational colleague who:
- Is passionate about raising achievement for all students, regardless of background.
- Can set high standards and raise the aspirations and expectations of all students.
- Is an excellent role model.
- Has strong communication and inter-personal skills.
This is a key appointment and represents an excellent opportunity for a quality practitioner wanting to develop their career or a candidate considering teaching in the future. There will be strong professional development opportunities for the successful candidate. If you feel you have the drive and commitment to succeed in this role we would like to hear from you.
The successful candidate will be a hardworking teacher who is fully committed to being the best practitioner they can be so they can make a difference to the students at The Sutton Academy.
How to Apply:
Applications should be returned to vacancies@thesuttonacademy.org.uk
Closing date: 14 November 2025
Interview date: TBC
This post is subject to satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure Certificate. The Sutton Academy is committed to equal opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What the school offers its staff
Our 1,500 strong workforce is our greatest asset. Our teachers and support staff all play a pivotal role in enabling ouryoung learners to fulfil their potential in life.
At The Challenge Academy Trust wewant to embed a culture that champions better work and working lives across the Trust; a framework to support and develop our workforce from ‘hire to retire’. Our staff workload, wellbeing and benefits offer demonstrates our commitment to ensure we can:
- Provide a workload that is fair and reasonable.
- Foster an environment where employee health and wellbeing are actively supported and promoted.
- Develop employee’s personal and professional skills & knowledge continuously throughout their careers.
- Provide structured routes for career progression
- Reward people fairly with transparent and appropriate pay and conditions of service alongside additional benefits.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
This post is subject to satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure Certificate. The Sutton Academy is committed to equal opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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About The Sutton Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1451 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Sutton Academy website
- Email address
- vacancies@thesuttonacademy.org.uk
The Sutton Academy opened in September 2010 and is on a successful improvement journey having recently received an excellent ‘good’ judgement, the first in its history, and securing its best ever results in 2022.
We have a clear vision at the academy for students to achieve in all areas of academy life whilst nurturing their talents and passions. The academy ethos is built around the highest expectations of all and we see it as our duty to ensure that students have the best life chances possible; leaving the academy well prepared to take their place in the world. We strive for the best possible levels of achievement for all our students and are committed to providing the highest standards of teaching and learning. In return we have very clear expectations of student behaviour and commitment to learning.
Our students benefit from a modern learning environment with outstanding facilities. This helps to create a vibrant and positive learning community which is friendly, caring and purposeful.
We are aspirational for our students and see it as our duty to ensure they leave the academy as confident and responsible adults who are empowered to make real choices in their lives.
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