Cover Supervisor

Westfield Academy, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 3DB

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  27 October 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, term time only plus INSET days
• Contract type: Fixed term - Fixed Term until August 2027 in the first instance
• Pay scale: Grade 12 (£25,297 - £28,360, actual salary)

What skills and experience we're looking for

We wish to appoint, as soon as possible, an enthusiastic individual to join our existing team of Cover Supervisors who provide high quality cover lessons for absent teaching staff. You will implement lesson plans prepared by teachers, and ensure an effective environment for learning. Cover Supervisors will need to register students promptly in line with our attendance and safeguarding procedures, respond to questions about the work that has been set, and generally assist students to undertake set activities and engage in learning, whilst promoting and implementing the schools ethos and policies.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, and be able to use their initiative to respond to classroom situations. Candidates should be able to demonstrate positive and effective behaviour management techniques, flexibility and an ability to work under pressure. This role requires the postholder to adapt to different demands at short notice due to the nature of cover requirements.

This role would suit candidates who are looking to get into teaching or a teaching assistant who may wish to take a step into a teaching role. A candidate with a willingness to support extracurricular sports clubs and fixtures as part of the wider cover supervisor role would fit the role well.

What the school offers its staff

A full and thorough training and induction programme will be provided.

‘Westfield Academy continues to be a good school’. (Ofsted, October 2023). The report recognised that our school is ‘happy, inclusive and caring’, the school’s ethos is built on warm and respectful relationships between staff and pupils’ and ‘staff feel valued and empowered’.

Westfield Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, including the barred list, as well as other pre-appointment checks such as online searches as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2026).

For further details please follow the links below and visit our website, www.westfieldacademy.co.uk or contact our HR & Student Data Officer Rhiannon Briggs, rhiannon.briggs@westfieldacademy.co.uk..

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 27th October 2026 at 09:00am.

Interviews will take place w/c 2nd November 2026.

Candidates shortlisted for interview will be informed by no later than 5.00pm on Wednesday 28th October 2026.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Westfield Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, including the barred list, as well as other pre-appointment checks outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2023).

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Cover Supervisor - Fixed Term Appliction Pack (Oct 26).pdf - 2.76 MB (opens in new tab)

About Westfield Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1013 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Westfield Academy website
• Email address: rhiannon.briggs@westfieldacademy.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/westfield-academy-yeovil

We are an 11-16 co-educational school, in Somerset, serving the town of Yeovil and the surrounding villages. Westfield is an oversubscribed and successful school with a good reputation.

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