12 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    30 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    17 June 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Cover Supervisor

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£25,992.00 - £28,163.00 Annually (FTE) Actual £22,313-£24,176 (pending pay award)

ILS Co-ordinator (Cover Supervisor) job summary

Start date: September 2025

Closing date: Monday 30th June, 9.00am

Shortlisting date: Monday 30th June

Interview date: To be confirmed

Contract: Permanent

Working hours: 37 hours per week

Working pattern: Term time plus TD days. Monday to Friday, 7.45am to 4.05pm Monday, 7.45am to 3.45pm Tuesday – Friday. A daily unpaid break of 40 minutes

Salary Range: Actual £22,313-£24,176 (FTE £25,992-£28,163) (pending pay award)

We are looking for self-confident, calm, well organised and flexible individual. You will be covering registration and lessons for absent colleagues and will need to demonstrate the same level of professionalism and dedication as teaching staff in order to succeed in this role. ILS Co-ordinators are not expected to teach, but rather supervise students who have been set work by the absent teacher. This role would suit either those thinking of a career in teaching or someone who just enjoys working with young people.

Your role will involve supervising students during the short term absence of teachers within the classroom, or supporting a teacher within the Independent Learning Suite. You will have the skills to maintain good order and keep students on task.

For more details, please see the Job Description in the Information Pack. If you would like to know more about this opportunity, or to arrange visit or a call please contact recruitment@kingsdownschool.co.uk

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

The River Learning Trust and Kingsdown School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. The Trust is required to conduct a variety of checks and online searches about you as part of their recruitment process in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. It is an offence to apply for certain roles within schools if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

For all RLT Safer Recruitment Documentation candidates should click on the following link RLT Safer Recruitment Documents for Candidates

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. For further guidance for applicants click on this link List of offences that are not filtered

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 Kingsdown School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
990 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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Kingsdown is a mixed 11–16 Secondary School located in Stratton St Margaret, Swindon. It offers a vibrant learning environment, one in which its students take great pride in both their learning, their behaviour and their individual aspirations. Our teachers combine a high level of academic expertise with excellent teaching skills and a real and deep concern for the wellbeing of each and every student. Taken together, these allow us to recruit and retain the very best teachers.

Thank you for taking an interest in working with us at Kingsdown School. You are joining us at a very exciting time in our school’s history. At the end of January 2020, we had a two day Ofsted Inspection and were judged to be Good in all five categories under the new framework. This marked the end to over a decade of being judged Requires Improvement.

Kingsdown is a school that has been on a transformational journey. We had a two year P8 trend of -0.50 and this year we secured a P8 score of +0.04. We have also recently been shortlisted for the TES Secondary School of the Year award. Along with the Ofsted judgement, this transformation is truly wonderful for our students, our school and community. Now we are looking for talented and experienced colleagues to join our team as we journey to Outstanding.

Our vision for our school is “a school of excellence bursting with pride and ambition” and our mission statement is that we “champion each and every student”.

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