Senior Cover Supervisor

Inspire Education Trust, Coventry, CV5 6LR

22 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  20 March 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  25 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,338.00 - £30,509.00 Annually (Actual) Support Staff Grade 5 scale points 12-23 £28,598 - £34,434 FTE

Senior Cover Supervisor job summary

Job Title : TrustSenior Cover Supervisor

Employment Status:Permanent - internal candidates only

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Term time only plus 5 days

Actual Salary: Support Staff Grade 5 scale points 12-23 £25,338- £30,509 Actual (£25,338 - £30,509 FTE)

Required: ASAP

Location:The postholder may be required to work across all Trust premises in Coventry and Nuneaton

About the role

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and flexible team player for this role of Senior Cover Supervisor.

We are looking for someone who:

Is enthusiastic and inspiring with excellent classroom management skills

Has relevant experience of working with and supporting primary aged pupils

Who can promote positive values and attitudes within the classroom

Understands their role in safeguarding and protecting children

This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who thrives on variety, enjoys working with young people and wants to play a key role in ensuring high quality learning continues across our classrooms.

As a Senior Cover Supervisor, you’ll be right at the heart of school life; leading learning, supporting pupils, bringing energy to classrooms and helping maintain a positive, purposeful culture.

If you love being part of a team, enjoy stepping up to a challenge, and want to develop your skills while contributing to the success of our pupils, this could be the perfect next step.

Why this role is great for internal staff?

• You already know our Trust values and ethos; this role lets you live them every day.
• A chance to grow your leadership and classroom confidence, supported by experienced colleagues.
• Ideal progression for those who’ve worked with children in any capacity and want to take the next step in their professional development.
• Opportunity to work within a Trust that values innovation, collaboration and shared success.

All staff are expected to know what to do if they have concerns about a child, take on the responsibility for providing a safe environment and promoting children’s welfare, undertake regular safeguarding and child protection training and, familiarise themselves with KCSIE part 1 and local policies and procedures as directed by the trust/academy.

How to apply:

All applications must be received electronically via our My New Term using the URL: https://www.ietrust.org/vacancies/

If you have any queries about the post, please email Catherine.Alexander-Gamble@ietrust.org HR & Payroll Coordinator.

Closing date: Monday 20th March 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 23rd March 2026

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and appointments will be subject to rigorous safeguarding checks including enhanced DBS and references. The postholder must share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted will be asked to complete a self-declaration to confirm any (non-protected) criminal disclosures or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.

The post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

We aim to recruit the very best staff and welcome those from all backgrounds, communities and faiths (including non-faith individuals). Inspire Education Trust is clear about its responsibilities in embracing diversity and ensuring we recruit people of a high calibre based on their skills, abilities, and experience. As such, we welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates.

The role of Senior Cover Supervisor will be classed as regulated activity. Any offer of employment will be conditional until satisfactory completion of all mandatory pre-employment checks. It is an offence to apply for this role if barred from engaging in regulating activity relevant to children.

Following recommendations from Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for an additional pre-employment check, with effect of 1st September 2022, please note an online search may form part of this recruitment process.

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 Inspire Education Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Inspire Education Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/inspire-education-trust

At Inspire Education Trust we are passionate about making a
difference to the lives of our pupils. They are at the heart of
everything we do, and we strive to inspire all learners, and want all
our schools to be the best they can be and for each and every child,
to discover the skills, abilities, talents and interests that lie within them.
We believe in working in partnership, enabling us to ensure all children and pupils
achieve their full potential. Our schools know the impact that working collaboratively
can bring.
Our schools have a desire to question, change and innovate to ensure that what they
provide enables our children to become successful learners, confident individuals and
responsible citizens.
At the same time, we recognise the importance for each school to retain and promote
their individual identity. Every school has its own context and challenges. This is why we
encourage our member schools to lead and manage in a way that preserves that
individual identity and responds to the specific needs of their children and community.
The combination of autonomy and collaboration across key areas of leadership and
management, underpinned by shared values and best practice is what makes our
schools special.

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