Cover Supervisor

Cover Supervisor

Start Date:
As soon as possible

Grade 5, SCP 7-11

Salary: £22,084.68 - £24,071.59 (Actual Salary £19,398.71 - £21,143.96)

Permanent, 32.5 hours per week

We are a Multi Academy Trust comprising of six secondary schools and one primary school with over 700 employees and over 5,500 students, based in Dudley, West Midlands.

Wombourne High School is seeking to appoint an inspirational and ambitious Cover Supervisor to join our ‘warm and welcoming school’.

The ideal candidate will share our student-centred values and be an engaging and proactive teacher with a passion for lifelong learning. You must firmly believe and be driven to ensure that every student, regardless of starting point, can achieve success, enjoy school, and be engaged with wider school life, to become the best that they can be.

The candidate should be an outstanding classroom practitioner. The successful candidate will build on current developments within the school, Trust, and nationally, to continue to improve outcomes and raise aspirations for all students.

We would strongly encourage you to get in touch and arrange a visit. We want the very best staff for our students and look forward to finding out if you are that person. Please contact nforemancation

Closing date:
Friday 11th April 2025 at 9am

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.

In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, as a part of our recruitment process, we will carry out an online search on shortlisted candidates to identify any comment, image, or other content that could cause reputational damage to the trust and/or give rise to a safeguarding concern. If we discover anything during our searches, this will be passed onto the recruitment manager and discussed during the interview.

We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes; otherwise, the conditional job offer may be withdrawn.

Details of the checks that will be undertaken can be found at:
Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2024 – KCSIE 2024

This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check.

It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website:

Positions at the school are exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to a post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). DBS Filtering guidance can be found on the  website.

As a Trust, we are committed to ensuring that throughout our recruitment and selection process, no applicant will be disadvantaged or discriminated against because of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.