Senior Cover Supervisor
| Posting date: | 28 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, West Midlands, CV3 2PD |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 18710f6f-4ba0-4beb-8d81-8d3c6db345b1 |
Summary
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.
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.
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.
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.