Cover Manager

COVER MANAGER

Required from September 2026

37 hours per week

Term time only plus one week (39 weeks)

Salary:
Grade 8 37hrs Pro rata £27437 - £29958 (Full time equivalent £31537 - £34434)
Plus Temporary Recruitment and Retention allowance of £2000 (pro rata for part time hours) to be reviewed August 2027

Are you an individual who believes that every young person can be successful; someone who is unwilling to put limits on what young people can achieve?

We are looking for an excellent Cover Manager to lead our energetic, enthusiastic and highly skilled team of cover teachers. Ensuring that our students have a calm, focused and productive learning experience on the occasions when their ordinary classroom teachers are unavailable is an important factor in their overall academic success.

As Cover Manager, you will not only be responsible for the efficient administration of our systems to ensure that supervision is in place for all planned and unplanned absences, stepping in to cover lessons yourself as and when necessary. You will also be responsible for training, monitoring and holding the cover team to account to ensure that students are always receiving a high quality experience, as well as liaising effectively with teaching staff so that appropriate work is provided in a timely manner.

In collaboration with senior staff, you will make decisions to deploy our resources strategically and with financial efficiency.

We will offer comprehensive training with regard to the administrative element of the role and the opportunity to work in a very supportive environment with high morale.

Situated just east of Oxford in a unique parkland site, Wheatley Park School is a flourishing 11-18 academy with a vibrant comprehensive intake.

Our employees benefit from a wide variety of support including extensive continuing professional learning and development opportunities, wellbeing and staff networks and access to Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (TPS and LGPS) for all staff.

This role includes regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Our staff are expected to maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by not undermining fundamental British values including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

Wheatley Park School, Holton, Oxford, OX33 1QH

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Closing date and time:
Friday 19th June 2026 at 9am