Senior Cover Supervisor
De Warenne Academy, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN12 3JYThis job expired on 16 September 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 33.75 Hours per week Monday - Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Grade F Points 14 to 19 (£29,540 to £32,061 Full Time Equivalent) subject to pro rata. The minimum actual pro rata salary per annum for this job starts at £23,278.81
What skills and experience we're looking for
As the Senior Cover Supervisor,you will manage cover for day to day and longer term absences for teaching staff to minimise the disruption to the learning process.
When you are not booking/organising cover arrangements, you will fulfil the duties of a Cover Supervisor by providing supervision of pupil learning within the academy. You will need to respond to questions, and generally assist students to undertake set activities and uphold standards of behaviour in the classroom. In addition to cover needs, you will be required to work alongside teaching and classroom based staff to provide general support for departments. This is a key role in supporting the day to day running of the academy/school. It is important for you to be ICT literate and competent in using a variety of software packages.
What the school offers its staff
Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust’s success story.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on yourFinancial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
- Membership to theLocal Government Pension Scheme
- Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
- Access to anextensivediscounts platform
Physical Wellbeing:
- 24/7 access to an online GPor Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
- Gym & fitness discount’s
- Cycle to Workscheme*
- Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
- Access to an industry leadingEmployee Assistance Programme
- Menopause Support Service
- TrainedMental Health First Aidersin all our settings
*Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
- Holiday Entitlement: minimum 35 days(subject to pro rata if working part time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About De Warenne Academy
- School type
- Academies, Does not apply, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 757 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- De Warenne Academy website
- Email address
- loftuss@dewarenne.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01709860014
Our aim is for all our students to learn in a positive, safe and supportive environment where academic achievement is celebrated and effort and attitude to learning is rewarded. Since our OFSTED inspection in October 2021, which deemed De Warenne a ‘Good’ school in all areas, GCSE results have shown a continuous improvement year on year.
The class of 2023 left our Academy with fantastic results, making the most progress in the history of De Warenne and having made more progress than any other secondary school in Doncaster. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, with academic, vocational and technical subjects offered to all our students and we deliver a rich and varied personal development curriculum. We offer a wide range of enrichment activities in order to unearth a variety of strengths and talent, which we strongly encourage students to take part in. We also take learning beyond the classroom with events and educational visits running throughout the year. We serve the villages of Conisbrough and Denaby Main, situated between Doncaster and Rotherham. We are a small but oversubscribed academy, with over 750 students on roll, and we pride ourselves on knowing our students well and doing our best to ensure everyone fulfils their potential.
We benefit from having a recently built academy situated in spacious grounds with excellent facilities including a recently built 3g astroturf pitch.
Our staff are talented and enthusiastic and have all contributed to the academy’s success story. We have a staff rewards budget and socialise both as subject teams and as a whole staff. We also have access to a staff benefits scheme.
At De Warenne, we value the continuous professional development of all our employees and recognise that our staff and students are most successful when they feel happy, valued, challenged and supported to achieve their very best.
Our senior leadership team, along with our dedicated teachers and support staff, are committed to ensuring the best possible outcomes for every child in our care. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team within a high performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants. Come and visit us and see for yourself!
Please contact the Principal on 07976028604 if you would like a chat about the position.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding the welfare of its students and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and checks of the relevant barred list / prohibition lists.
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Arranging a visit to De Warenne Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email loftuss@dewarenne.org.uk.
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