Cover Manager

Job Title: Cover Manager - 4 hours per day, 5 days a week, term-time only.

Reports to: Assistant Headteacher

Salary: Starting salary NJC scale 5, scale point 12, pro-rata salary: £14,248 pa (FTE £30,033).

Rising to NJC scale 5, scale point 17, pro-rata salary: £15,381 pa (FTE £32,421)

Working Days: 5 days per week, 20 hours per week, 38.6 weeks per year, (term time only).

Working Hours: 7.00am - 11.00am daily.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a COVER MANAGER. The successful applicant will provide an efficient and professional organisation of the daily class cover arrangements to minimise the effect on student learning due to staff absence, and line manage 3 cover supervisors. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced, calm, confident and proactive person who wishes to develop their organisational, managerial and administrative experience. Previous experience of working in a school is desirable but not essential.

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. 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 have a positive attitude towards their work and enjoy learning" (Ofsted 2019). 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 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 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:

Alternatively, apply via TES online.

CLOSING DATE: 9.00am on Monday 4 November 2024

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.

Salary: Starting salary NJC scale 5, scale point 12, pro-rata salary: £14,248 pa (FTE £30,033).

Rising to NJC scale 5, scale point 17, pro-rata salary: £15,381 pa (FTE £32,421)

Working Days: 5 days per week, 20 hours per week, 38.6 weeks per year, (term time only).

Working Hours: 7.00am - 11.00am daily.