Cover Supervisor (with form tutor responsibilities)

The Cooper School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 4RS

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  7 July 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,501.00 - £24,289.00 Annually (Actual) This is a Grade 7 position

Cover Supervisor (with form tutor responsibilities) job summary

Cover Supervisor with Form Tutor Duties

Grade 7 | 30 hours per week | Term time only plus INSET days (39 weeks) | Permanent
Working hours: 8:25am - 3:30pm

The Cooper School is seeking a reliable and motivated Cover Supervisor with Form Tutor responsibilities to join the team. This is a varied and rewarding role supporting teaching, learning and pastoral care across the school.

You will supervise pre-set lessons in the absence of teachers, ensuring students remain engaged and on task. In addition, you will take on the role of Form Tutor, providing day-to-day pastoral support and helping to promote positive student outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supervising lessons and maintaining a positive, orderly learning environment
• Supporting students’ academic progress and wellbeing
• Acting as a Form Tutor, including delivering tutor time activities (e.g. PSHE)
• Monitoring attendance, punctuality and behaviour, and communicating with parents/carers where appropriate
• Providing feedback following cover lessons and supporting wider school systems

The role requires you to:

• Attend regular staff briefings
• Be available to cover tutor time sessions
• Provide cover for targeted interventions as required

We are looking for someone who:

• Is organised, adaptable and confident working with young people
• Has strong communication and behaviour management skills
• Demonstrates resilience and the ability to work effectively in a busy school environment
• Is committed to safeguarding and supporting student wellbeing

A good standard of education (including GCSE Maths and English or equivalent) is essential.

Safeguarding Statement

The Cooper School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo appropriate safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS check.

The successful candidate will also be required to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.

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

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.

About The Cooper School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1228 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: The Cooper School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-cooper-school-bicester

At The Cooper School, we pride ourselves on being forward thinking in terms of curriculum decisions which support our students; focused on improving learning through the use of new technologies and determined to continuously refine our approaches to teaching and learning. Investing in the Media Suite reflects a small part of our approach to making learning engaging, relevant and active for our students.

Joining us as a member of staff at The Cooper School means being able to see the big picture for the students here. It means that whilst we always strive for academic excellence, we also place great value upon students becoming adaptable, resourceful and enquiring. These are the sort of skills that will enable them to become effective citizens, just as much as their academic results will. As such, we encourage independent learning, enrichment initiatives and House-based teamwork and co-operation.

Working here is an opportunity to flourish as a professional. We ‘grow our own’ leaders. Many new staff have taken on additional responsibilities which is a mark of their quality and commitment to making progress in their own careers as well as their desire to become part of a successful and positive organisation.

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