21 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    1-09-2025 (or earlier depending on availability of successful candidate)

  • Closing date

    2 June 2025 at 9am

  • Date listed

    12 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teaching assistant

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Cover Supervisor

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Fixed term

Full-time equivalent salary

£23,519.00 - £25,926.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary will be paid Term Time Only

Lead Cover Supervisor job summary

Our lead cover supervisor will be responsible for ensuring that students have a high-quality learning experience when their usual teacher is away from school.

You will manage the cover requirements to ensure that students learning is uninterrupted by staff absence, you will also manage classroom behaviour to ensure pupils stay on task and facilitate the activities that have been designed by teaching staff to ensure that students complete the work in an effective learning environment.

If you are passionate about the young people in our community and want to be a part of ensuring their bright futures, then we would really like to hear from you.

This role offers you the chance to step in and lead lessons in the absence of the regular teacher, primarily for KS3 and KS4 students, with occasional work at KS5. You’ll also have the opportunity to make a broader contribution across the Academy.

You will ensure a high standard of lesson cover is achieved and it is anticipated that in due course you will line manage a team Cover Supervisors.

This is a permanent, full-time role working 37 hours per week, on a term time only basis.

About Us

The Trinity Catholic School is a secondary school located in Nottingham. We are an Ofsted-rated Good school. We are a fantastic place to work and aim to develop our young people spiritually, socially and academically with Christ at the centre of our work. Our school motto, ‘Ad Dei Gloriam’ meaning what we do we offer to the glory of God, underpins the ethos of the school.

We are part of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi-Academy Trust, bringing together the 36 Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Lincolnshire, Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.

You will:

  • Manage the cover requirement ensuring all lessons are cover as appropriate.
  • Managing and organising cover for absent teaching staff
  • Organising and providing induction and support for supply staff
  • Managing the early staff absence line
  • Liaising with agencies
  • Supervise the students in KS3, KS4 and occasional KS5, working on pre-set learning activities in the absence of a teacher.
  • Be caring and supportive and committed to achieving excellent results.
  • Want to make a difference to our students and foster excellent relationships.
  • Have a belief that every young person, whatever their starting point or circumstances, can achieve exceptional things.
  • Promote the well-being of our student’s providing guidance and support and be able to inspire learning and progress.
  • Be approachable and professional with the ability to foster excellent relationships.
  • Be resilient and determined, and confident in talking to large groups of young people.
  • Be tenacious and well organised with good time management.

What’s in it for you?

  • An actual salary of £23,519- £25,926 per annum (OLOL Band 4: Scale Points 11 - 17)
  • Wonderful students who have a passion for learning and deserve the very best.
  • A team of talented and highly committed staff in a supportive working environment.
  • Terms and Conditions - we have committed to following nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.

Fantastic benefits:

  • Generous Pension Scheme with employer contributions over 20%.
  • Access to top-tier CPD opportunities tailored to your development.
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing emotional, financial, and legal support for you and your family.
  • Exclusive perks: From staff discounts to a Cycle-to-Work scheme, we’ve got you covered!
  • A welcoming community: Work with enthusiastic students, supportive colleagues, and a leadership team that values your expertise.
  • Term time only working.

Closing Date: Monday 2 June 2025 at 9.00am

Visits are warmly welcomed so you can see for yourself, and we encourage you to talk to us to learn more about the role. Please contact [NAME] on [email address and/or telephone number] to arrange a visit or to discuss the role further.

You do not need to be a Catholic to work for out Trust and we warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs. This includes those of all faiths, the Catholic faith and those without a faith who are supportive of the Trust’s Catholic character and Christian ethos. This diversity is fundamental to our values and enriches the lives of the students within our schools. Our Trust strives to be a supportive, inclusive, caring, and positive community where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check and other pre-employment checks including online searches are required for successful applicants.

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 The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary Academy

School type
Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1178 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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The Trinity Catholic School serves the children and families of the City of Nottingham and its surrounding areas. Situated in Aspley on a split site in the East of the city, we work with the parishes of St Teresas of Lisieux in Aspley, St Augustine’s in St Anns, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Bulwell and St Mary’s in Hyson Green. Renowned for consistently high academic outcomes, the school prides itself on excellent pastoral care and standards of behaviour whilst working to meet the school mission statement:

“This Catholic School will seek to educate the whole person, academically, morally, socially and spiritually through the example of Jesus Christ and the witness of committed capable teachers”.

Trinity has 1129 pupils including 230 in the Sixth Form. The school holds a number of awards including; Leading Edge Partnership School, Heathy Schools, International School Award, Arts Mark Gold, Sims Partner School, Sports Mark and Career Mark highlighting the breadth of quality within the school and areas of expertise. The school was inspected in October 2008 by OFSTED and judged to be Outstanding. On our last Diocesan Canonical Inspection we were judged as Outstanding (November 2014).

The school promotes involvement in a broad range of extra-curricular activities and celebrates the successes of our children and young people via the school website as well as in school. We promote opportunities both within and outside of the classroom to ensure that all children experience an excellent, rich and varied education to ensure that they are prepared for life after school in further education, employment or training.

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