Cover Supervisor

**Reference number**

BUC14105

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Part Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

16 Sep 2025, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

30 Sep 2025

**Overview**:
We are looking for a Cover Supervisor at Aylesbury High School. The role is permanent on a part time basis - 0.4 FTE (2 days per week).
The salary is AHS Pay Range 3 which is £28,812 - £30,906 for the full time equivalent.

**Term time only**

**Salary Type**:AHS Pay Range 3

**Salary details**:£28,812 - £30,906 FTE

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:0.4 FTE (2 days per week)

**Closing date**:30/09/2025 09:00

**Interviews to be held**:After the closing date

**About us**:
Aylesbury High School (AHS) is a forward-thinking girls’ grammar school that values both academic and pastoral excellence and co-curricular opportunities with the vision of developing uniquely talented young adults, who are independent, strong and confident.

We create a welcoming environment which draws the very best from all in our community. Achieved by providing an ambitious education that stimulates creative and critical thinking, values diversity and facilitates dynamic personal development.

The AHS values are Confidence, Respect, Engagement, Aspiration, Teamwork and Enjoyment and we want all our community to experience, develop and demonstrate these characteristics both within the curriculum and through our extensive co-curricular offering.

**Website**:
**About the role**:
Key Aim: To establish and maintain a positive and productive learning environment in the classroom whilst also promoting the values of the school.

Ensuring you have your timetable and details of work for the day
Use SIMS/Edulink to register attendance
Collect, distribute and return materials as outlined on the Cover Sheet
Display work on the board
Whenever possible guide students and deal with any queries
Ensure students are on task and that work set is completed
Record how far students got with the work and report any issues of concern
Ensure room is tidy and litter-free before dismissing the students

Additional Duties

An understanding of and commitment to the safeguarding requirements associated with such a role
Provide cover for the absence of other student facing non-teaching staff, where possible, to maintain the day to day running of the school.
Provide administrative support as requested by teachers and co-ordinated by the Cover Officer.
Have an awareness of and implement school policies as appropriate
Participate in all staff training days
Assist with invigilation or scripting of exams, where necessary

Self-Evaluation and Improvement

Contribution to whole school self-evaluation will take the form of:
Participating in the AHS Appraisal Process
Participating in CPD/Training activities
The requirements of the post may vary from time to time without altering its essential nature or level of responsibility.

**About you**:
**Qualifications**:
Maths and English to GCSE grade 5 / C or equivalent (essential)

Experience

Working within a team (essential)
Working to tight deadlines (essential)
Planning your own workload (essential)
Experience of working with young people, preferably in a school setting (desirable)

Knowledge

IT competency (essential)
An understanding of and a commitment to the safeguarding requirements associated with the role (essential)
Use of Google products to a competent level (desirable)
Use of SIMS (desirable)

Skills/Competencies

The ability to work independently and to take direction (essential)
Excellent oral and written communication skills (essential)
Excellent interpersonal skills (essential)
Excellent organisational skills (essential)
High attention to detail and a high level of accuracy (essential)
The ability to be reactive and proactive (desirable)
The ability to be creative and innovative (essential)

**Other information**:
or posted to: Mrs Lisa Greenway, Finance & Operations Director, Aylesbury High School, Walton Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 7SX

Interviews: After the closing date

CVs alone cannot be accepted for safeguarding reasons.

If you are shortlisted for this post, you will also be required to complete a self-disclosure form as part of the recruitment process; this will not be used for shortlisting purposes.

AHS is an equal opportunities employer

**_ This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 174 and therefore applicants are required to declare:_**
- **_All unspent cautions and convictions cautions_**:

- **_All adult cautions and spent convictions 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_**

**_, the _**

**_Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance_**

**_ or _**

**_Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance_**

**_ (see, in particular, the section titled ‘E