Occasional Cover Supervisor
Bullers Wood School, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5LJ7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 March 2026 at 9am
Date listed
13 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- Actual £13.91 - £15.25 per hour depending on skills and experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Title: Occasional, Part time Cover Supervisor
Reports: Cover Organiser
Hours of Duty: Variable – there is no commitment to offer any regular employment – the requirement for this post is to have a cover supervisor who will be called upon as needed.
Term time contract: 37 weeks
Holiday: To be taken outside school term times.
Salary: BR6 £26,100 - £28,626 - FTE (Actual £13.91 – 15.25 per hour depending on skills and experience). Pay will be for actual service i.e. hours worked payable after submission of a claim form. No salary will be paid for any occasion when the school is closed or if you are unable to attend for any reason having previously notified the school that you would be attending.
Main purpose of the position:
To supervise whole classes when teachers are absent and to assist students in completing work set to ensure that effective learning takes place.
Responsibilities:
a) Cover for absent teachers
- Check lessons to be covered each day.
- Collect cover work via email/from the cover box in the Staff Room.
- Be punctual for the start and end of lessons and begin lessons promptly.
- Register the class every lesson (within the first 5 minutes) using the school’s electronic registration system as a check on punctuality, internal truancy etc and ask students to use your title and surname when they respond rather than just ‘Yes’ or ‘Yes Miss/Sir’.
- Explain to students the work that has been set and project it/write it on the board. Distribute resources as appropriate.
- Supervise the class in the absence of the class teacher, expect and encourage high standards of work and assist the students in completing work set.
- Do not permit the students to leave the classroom without a valid reason. Students should be issued with an out of lesson pass in their contact book if they leave the room.
- Check the room is tidy and litter free at both the beginning and end of the lesson and, if not, ask students to assist in tidying up.
- Follow the school’s Behaviour for Learning Policy with due regard to behaviour expectations, rewards and sanctions.
- Follow up on any behaviour issues promptly using the School’s procedure – by the end of the day unless serious in which case immediate action is required.
- Use school systems to remove students who disrupt the learning of others.
- Ask students to stand before being dismissed formally at the end of the lesson - students should leave the class before you.
- Make sure the board is clean before you leave the room, turn off the interactive whiteboard and log off the computer.
- Return lesson details, register and work completed by students to the pigeon hole of the member of staff you are covering before the end of the day.
b) Other
- Undertake form registration for absent form tutors, supervise students during form time and undertake any duties required of the absent form tutor in this time
- Assist form tutors in form time
- Escort students to assembly and supervise entrance and departure.
- Support teaching staff in lessons if not required to cover absence.
- Undertake break duty as required.
- Invigilate exams as required.
- Participate in school trips and visits as required.
- Uphold the ethos and policies of the school, including the commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably requested.
This job description is not necessarily a comprehensive definition of the post. It may be subject to modification or amendment at any time after consultation with the post holder.
What the school offers its staff
LGPS - pension (if required number of hours are accrued)
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bullers Wood School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1571 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bullers Wood School website
- Email address
- crobertson@iniciotrust.org
This post is available in September 2023 and offers an exciting opportunity to join an enthusiastic staff and very supportive department whose members are committed to making a real difference. The school was last fully inspected by Ofsted in May 2011 and we were awarded Outstanding. The report is available on our website. We are very proud of our achievements and prior to the pandemic had regularly been congratulated by the Minister of State for Schools on our achievements at GCSE level placing us in the top 100 non-selective state-funded schools in England. In addition, we were in the top 100 for students achieving the English Baccalaureate. We have also regularly been in the top 10% nationally (out of over 2,500 schools and colleges) for our A level performance assessed by ALPS.
We are looking for a passionate individual to help us to ensure that in every way Bullers Wood remains an excellent school and that every one of our students flourishes, achieves and exceeds expectations.
The successful candidate will join Bullers Wood at an exciting time as September 2018 saw the opening of a new secondary free school, Bullers Wood School for Boys, who have now moved into their brand-new permanent building. Our two schools led to the establishment of the Bullers Wood Multi Academy Trust, giving opportunities for enhanced professional and career development for colleagues working within the Trust. The successful candidate may be required to work at either school.
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