Cover Supervisor

Contract type: Permanent
Reports to: Cover Manager 
Hours of work: Monday - Friday, 8.15am - 3.15pm
Work pattern: 32.5 hours per week, Term time + 5 INSET days (38.6 weeks)
Salary information: Starting salary NJC Scale 4, Point 7, £23,145 per annum rising to NJC Scale 4, Point 11, £25,927 per annum.

Start date: 3 November 2025

An exciting role has arisen to appoint a committed and enthusiastic individual as a Cover Supervisor. The successful applicant will provide an effective cover supervision in a range of subjects, as required, in response to short term teacher absence, ensuring good order is maintained in the classroom and that students stay on task. This is under the guidance of teaching staff who will share the work for cover lessons on the central Google Drive to ensure a continuity of student learning. This role would suit a graduate, who is considering a career in teaching or an individual who has experience of working with secondary age children, possibly as a teaching assistant. Previous experience within a school environment is desirable but not essential.

The successful applicant will:

• Have a proven track record of fostering good relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Clear and consistent vision and values / leading by example.
• Self starter, capable of working independently and also as part of a team.
• Abllity to communicate effectively with students and staff.
• Be confident dealing with children.
• Possess a high level of personal responsibility.
• Ability to play a part in promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students and to act as an appropriate role model for young people.

Vyners is a very popular and oversubscribed mixed eight form entry, 11-18 comprehensive school, situated in a pleasant residential area in North West London, bordering Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We have a track record of real success at all Key Stages.  In 2025, 81% of students achieved grades 9-4 in both English and Maths at GCSE and we are consistently ranked in the top 10% of all non-selective schools nationally for progress measures and attainment. At A-Level 25% of all grades were A* - A and 57% A* - B. The school converted to academy status on 1 November 2011 and is part of the Vanguard Learning Trust which also includes one other secondary and three primary schools.

We are well known for high academic standards, good behaviour, and our strong community spirit including a strong house system with students leading their peers. “Pupils benefit from excellent relationships with each other and with staff.  They are well cared for and have adults they trust and who they can talk to if they have problems” (Ofsted, 2025). Many students are involved in extracurricular sport, music and drama, performing at a high level including prestigious public events and performing in our own school productions.  

As part of the Vanguard Learning Trust, we also offer staff developmental opportunities via the trust and support from other professionals in the same role across the trust schools.

Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?
Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice.  

An application form can be downloaded from here or the Vyners School website: www.vynersschool.org.uk where all information about this post can be obtained.

Applications should be returned to: Frances Webb, via email to: recruitment@vynersschool.org.uk. Tel: 01895 200853 

Closing date: Friday 17 October 2025 at 9.00am
Further information: Early applications will be considered and suitable candidates may be offered an interview before the closing date.

Vanguard Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

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: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.

Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.