Cover Supervisor - The Aylesbury Vale Academy
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We are looking for an individual who wants to share in our vision for children and young people, and who also wants to work as part of a close-knit caring and supportive staff team.
Term time only: Yes
Salary type: Bucks Pay
Salary Details: Bucks Pay Range 4 Point 21 (£31,424) to Point 25 (£33,735) FTE (Actual Salary will reflect working pattern of 32.5 hours per week, 39 weeks per year)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Closing date: 23/08/2026
Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 07 September 2026
About us
The Aylesbury Vale Academy is an Academy with a strong sense of purpose and achievement based upon respect, aspiration and resilience. The Academy provides a safe and stimulating learning environment for children from 2 to 18 years old. At the Academy, we aim to provide an inclusive, engaging and challenging experience, within the context of a Christian community, leading to an education of the highest quality.
Website: https://www.theacademy.me/
About the role
The Aylesbury Vale Academy is a large, vibrant and warm community of over 200 staff. Staff wellbeing, happiness and job satisfaction is essential to ensuring the school achieves its goals. We value our staff and provide a welcoming and supportive working environment in which they can develop as professionals and progress in their careers. We are committed to our status as a workplace signed up to the DfE Wellbeing Charger and continuously review our practices to improve culture and workload.
Cover Supervisors are responsible for the management of classes when the regular teacher is absent and during PPA sessions. They are accountable for ensuring that learning is taking place and all students are making progress. Cover Supervisors are required to oversee classes across the full range of subjects although individual strengths will be utilised where possible. When cover is not required, Cover Supervisors support in a range of other activities such as a development of teaching resources in individual curriculum areas or assisting in the SEN department.
About you
Candidates must have experience of working children and young adults.
Numeracy and literacy skills, equivalent to GCSE Grade C in Maths and English are essential. Candidates must possess effective communication and organisational skills, competence in the use of ICT to support teaching and learning, ability to work with minimum supervision within a team and ability to manage students in a classroom setting.
Please see attached Person specification for further information.
Other information
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their application (CVs will not be accepted) as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
Email: [email protected]
Our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children will be reflected throughout the recruitment process and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and an online screening check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
