Lead Cover Supervisor

Monkton Wood Academy, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 8PD

4 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  11 December 2025

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,700 - £33,951

Lead Cover Supervisor job summary

Job Title: Lead Cover Supervisor

Actual Annual Salary: £30,700 - £33,951. Based on hours and working weeks

Full Time Equivalent Salary: £35,852 - £39,649 (CLF Grade E). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Term Time only plus Insets

Additional role info: Working Pattern is Monday to Friday with a 7am start

Provisional Start Date: 23 February 2026

Are you an organised, proactive leader with a passion for education?

We are seeking a Lead Cover Supervisor to join our team and ensure high-quality lesson cover across the academy.

In this pivotal role, you will be leading, to ensure lessons run smoothly during teacher absences. You will coordinate and deploy cover efficiently, maintaining continuity of learning for all students. Support students in completing curriculum tasks, promoting positive behaviour and high aspirations. Collaborate with senior leaders to deliver a consistent and effective cover provision. Coach and guide staff, including supply teachers, to uphold academy standards.

You’ll need excellent organisational skills, strong interpersonal abilities, and the confidence to make quick decisions under pressure. This is a dynamic role where no two days are the same, perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a real impact on student success.

About you:

You will: 

• Have a basic knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.
  
• Hold an understanding of learning processes, barriers to learning and behaviour management strategies to facilitate the delivery of learning activities effectively.
  
• Have good literacy and numeracy competency with a minimum of 5 GCSEs (including Maths and English at grade C/4 or above), or other equivalent qualifications.
  
• Have excellent organisational and problem solving skills.
  
• Have previous staff management or supervisory experience.
  
• Be able to deal with sensitive and confidential matters in a discrete and considerate manner.
  

About Monkton Wood Academy:

Monkton Wood Academy is an 11-18 school located in Monkton Heathfield, near Taunton. We are currently going through a period of change and rapid improvement as we seek to make Monkton Wood a place of academic excellence, where children can progress and thrive. We are developing a culture of high expectations and mutual respect, where students and staff can be successful in our roles and become the best possible version of ourselves.

Monkton Wood has long been proud of its strong connections with the local community; our parents and our partners at the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre are highly engaged in school life. It is incredibly important to us that our students develop a strong sense of belonging and confidence in their own ability to achieve well and to go on to serve their community.

Why work at CLF?

We are a diverse and inclusive community of 36 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

What we can offer you:

• Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
  
• Generous annual leave.
  
• A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
  
• Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
  
• Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
  
• A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
  
• Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
  

Recruitment timeline:

• Closing Date: 05 January 2026
  
• Short-listing: 06 January 2026
  
• Interviews: 16 January 2026
  

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.

As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.

We are unable to offer sponsorship with this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.   

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are dedicated to equity and inclusion and commit to interviewing applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. We aim to provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process, and support employees throughout their employment. If you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process please let us know how we can assist.

 

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 Monkton Wood Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1266 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Monkton Wood Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heathfield-community-school-taunton

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