Sports Coach and Cover Supervisor
Redden Court School, Romford, Essex, RM3 0TS24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
November 2026
Closing date
7 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
14 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher or lecturer
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £25,384.00 - £26,493.00 Annually (Actual) Scale 4, Point 7-10
Sports Coach and Cover Supervisor job summary
The successful candidate will support the schools extensive PE Faculty programme, extra curricular clubs and Sports Academy and should have a strong background in teaching PE and various sports. In this role the candidate will ensure that the programme provides exceptional opportunities for all students of all ages and abilities.
As a Cover Supervisor, you would provide cover for teaching staff where immediate, short term or unplanned cover is required when teaching staff are absent.
The role is to manage individuals, groups or whole classes either on their own or in the presence of teaching staff and/or Learning Support staff.
The Cover Supervisor will primarily be responsible for the maintenance of good order and focused activity. This requires behaviour management and interpersonal skills.
Job Purpose and Context:-
To provide direction, support and vision to a dynamic PE programme whilst shaping students in a school that values all sports as a major part of its ethos.
To supervise and support the learning of classes, delivering pre-set work, in cover lessons.
Roles and Responsibilities:-
To implement strategies to improve the standard of the student’s skills and knowledge of sports through training sessions before school, at lunchtimes and after school
To continue to promote and raise the profile of sports within school and beyond within local, county, and national fixtures
To establish and maintain a purposeful, positive working atmosphere which supports student progress
To communicate and consult with parents of students as necessary, including telephone calls, emails and parental meetings
To contribute to the day-to day running of the PE Faculty
To act as a cover teacher in PE and non-PE lessons providing professional guidance to classes, setting high expectations of conduct and behaviour and monitoring student progress within the lesson.
Invigilate and supervise school examinations, tests and assessments.
Supervise students on or off school premises in the context of trips, visits, concerts, assemblies
Complete registers and/or use the school’s attendance recording systems
Work within the values, culture and ethos, equality and diversity of the school
Ensure compliance with Health and Safety law and school procedures, minimising any health and safety risk and security of the working environment
Why work with us:
As an employer, we are committed to promoting career development and recognise hard work and effort. As an equal opportunities employer we offer from day one of your employment parental leave, compassionate leave and carers leave at or above the statutory levels. We are committed to wellbeing and flexible working requests which can be submitted from day one.
As an employee, you will be covered by our excellent well-being support and medical cover programmes provided through the Spark and Medicash organisations. This includes access 24 hours a day to a GP helpline, physiotherapy, optical support, dental treatment, and access to a counselling service.
Redden Court School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (with children's barred list check).
Redden Court School is an equal opportunities employer including blind recruitment.
"We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in our workforce. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community regardless of gender, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, disability, religion or belief, age or sex and sexual orientation.”
If you are looking to advance your career in a supportive and dynamic setting and are committed to providing the very best experience for our staff and students, we would love to meet you.
The Trust's January 2026 Staff Survey results confirm it is a great, safe, and supportive place to work. Staff are significantly more likely to recommend the Trust as a good employer compared to the national benchmark. This positive sentiment is consistent throughout, with general job satisfaction and communication outcomes also being substantially higher than the national benchmark.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Committed employer and we welcome applications from the whole community. All applications for flexible working will be accommodated if operationally feasible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.
The use of AI is strictly forbidden to assist in any way with the interview/application process.
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 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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Redden Court School
- Organisation type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 1058 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Website
- Redden Court School website
We pride ourselves on being a fully comprehensive school placed at the heart of the community. We want all of our students to be happy, ambitious and to achieve results that reflect their true potential.
Our school has served the local community of Harold Wood for many years, providing a high quality education to the students of this area.
Our vision is focused on a ‘Commitment to Success for All’ and high levels of aspiration for every member of our community. The school is forward thinking and progressive. We seek to achieve the very best for all of our students through the use of a rich variety of educational approaches.
We have caring staff who are dedicated to ensuring the students are successful in every aspect of their learning.
Redden Court is the founding school in the Success for All Educational Trust and is recognised as one of the highest performing mixed comprehensive schools in Havering.
We are an accredited ‘Thinking School’ and have very close links with the Cognitive Education Development Unit at the University of Exeter. Metacognition and the development of thinking skills is at the heart of our teaching and learning in the school as we believe it plays an important part in developing resilient and independent learners.
We also have very strong links with the Havering Teacher Training Programme, we are a senior partner in the Empower Teaching Alliance and we are recognised as a Leading Edge School by the SSAT. The school has also been accredited with All Together (Anti Bullying), Place2Be (Student Mental Health), SEND Exceptional Outcomes Award, The Quality in Careers Standards, Healthy Schools Gold Award and Gold Travel Ambassadors Award.
We are a growing community Trust with inclusion at the heart of our ethos and require leaders who will bring this vision to life.
These are exciting times for Redden Court School with so much change and challenge in the future.
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