Senior Cover Supervisor
Clifford Bridge Academy, Coventry, West Midlands, CV3 2PD10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
7 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday between the hours of 8.00am and 4.30pm, term time plus 5 days
Contract type
- Fixed term - September 2025 - August 2026
Full-time equivalent salary
- Support staff Grade 5 - FTE £27,711 - £33,366 pro rata
Pay scale
- Support staff Grade 5 - £23,223 - £27,965 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Title Senior Cover Supervisor
Employment Status: Fixed term for 1 year
Working Hours: 35 hours per week, term time only plus 5 days.
Actual Salary: £23,223 - £27,965 per annum
Full time equivalent salary: Support staff Grade 5 - FTE £27,711 - £33,366 per annum
Required: September 2025
Location: Clifford Bridge Academy, Coventry - may include Trust wide working
About the role
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and flexible team player for this role of Senior Cover Supervisior.
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
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.
What the school offers its staff
About us
We are a vibrant and happy two-form entry school, who was graded as ‘Good’ by Ofsted in January 2025, with three of the five areas being graded as ‘Outstanding’. The report stated, “Pupils at Clifford Bridge Academy love to learn and teachers expect the best. Pupils are a credit to the school and are excellent ambassadors. They are right to be proud of their school. Parents say that Clifford Bridge is a very special place.”
As part of the Inspire Multi-Academy Trust, we work in close partnership with Walsgrave CE Academy, Whittle Academy, Hearsall Community Academy, Stockingford Academy, Frederick Bird Academy, Arley Primary Academy, and Blue Coat C of E Academy. The links between the schools are both stimulating and supportive, enabling us to share best practice though collaborative working.
You will find our Clifford Bridge family warm and welcoming as our children, parents, carers, staff and friends of schools are at the heart of all we do. We are passionate about every child reaching for the stars; shining brightly in their individual talents and working hard to achieve their hopes and dreams. As their teachers, we promise to use our own light to guide them on their journey, and to always take decisions that have them at the core.
Our broad and balanced curriculum provides the water that quenches children’s thirst for learning and our dedicated staff provide the nutrients that children need to thrive and explore.
Flexible working opportunities
Why work for us?
A career at Inspire Education Trust offers a rewarding future, with the opportunity to make a real impact on the lives and outcomes of our young people. We work hard to provide an environment which places staff wellbeing at the forefront of the agenda, as well as providing ample opportunities for personal and professional development.
As such, we offer a portfolio of benefits designed to enhance and support the working lives of our staff. These include, but are not limited to:
- A highly supportive and committed senior leadership team
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers 24/7 confidential advice and support on a range of matters and free access to accredited counsellors
- A focus on staff wellbeing including a network of wellbeing champions and a supportive working environment
- Opportunity to join a committed and forward-thinking team of staff
- Employee Benefits platform providing staff access to a range of benefits such as shopping discounts
How to apply:
All applications must be received electronically via our TES page: https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/-1000391
If you experience any problems with the online application process please contact TES directly: recruitment@tes.com
If you have any queries about the post, please email Catherine.alexander-gamble@ietrust.org
Closing date: 9am Monday 7th July 2025
Interview date: Week commencing Monday 14th July 2025
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 the effect of 1st September 2022, please note an online search may form part of this recruitment process.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
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About Clifford Bridge Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 450 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Clifford Bridge Academy website
- Email address
- catherine.alexander-gamble@ietrust.org
- Phone number
- 02476223542
Arranging a visit to Clifford Bridge Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email catherine.alexander-gamble@ietrust.org.
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