Cover Supervisor
Nova Hreod Academy
Swindon
- £26,654 - £26,655 per year
- New
- Salary:
- £26, 655 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 27 March 2026
Job overview
Nova Hreod Academy
Cover Supervisor
Job Title: Cover Supervisor
Location: Nova Hreod Academy, Swindon, Wiltshire
Salary: £26, 655 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week if full-time. Monday to Friday.
Contract: Permanent, term time only.
Start date: ASAP
Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding challenge working with young people? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
The role
We have a great opportunity to appoint a new Cover Supervisor here at Nova Hreod. Working within a small team you will play a fundamental role in supporting a mixture of planned and reactive cover requirements across a full range of subject areas.
The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic and professional person who can effectively manage classroom behaviour, introduce and support cover work and ensure lesson outcomes are achieved in the absence of the classroom teacher across a full range of subjects. They will be able to help all students at Nova understand the value of their education; be able to facilitate a happy and productive classroom experience and be a positive role model to all students they work with. (Nova Hreod has a clear and robust behaviour policy which means that if a pupil disrupts learning, they are removed from the lesson.)
Cover Supervisors at Nova Hreod can access the same outstanding training activities and support we offer to our subject specialist teachers, and there is a great opportunity to take a full role in school life alongside the cover duties.
What you offer
You will be a reliable and well-organised professional with strong communication skills, able to manage cover provision effectively and build positive relationships with Faculty Leaders, SLT and pastoral staff. You will be reflective, resilient, and open to improving systems and processes.
Experience in a school setting is advantageous, whether gained through cover supervision, teaching, mentoring or youth work, as it supports effective navigation of classroom challenges. The role may also suit qualified teachers from any discipline seeking a new professional challenge while remaining classroom-based.
The ideal candidate will:
Be educated to A Level or Degree Level,
Have administrative experience,
Have experience working in schools or with young people,
Have experience of using data/information systems, spreadsheets and word processing,
Have the ability to understand, interpret and follow systems, policies and procedures,
Have excellent organisation and time management skills,
Be able to develop and maintain positive working relationships with students, their families, colleagues and other professionals,
Demonstrate tact and sensitivity where appropriate.
We can offer you a school where you will receive excellent CPD to further develop your skills you will work in fast-paced but supportive team a highly supportive and hands-on SLT take responsibility for creating a calm and respectful ethos a team of non-teaching pastoral and SEN staff work with SLT and teachers to support our pupils we are proud to provide disruption-free learning for our pupils there is a fantastic extra-curricular programme.
Why choose us
At Nova Hreod Academy, we pride ourselves on a team of staff who are supportive, friendly and dedicated to providing the very best teaching and learning for our students. Staff across the academy set a culture of high expectations and continuous improvement for students which, in turn, is reflected in the emphasis we place on continuing professional development (CPD) for our staff.
We have made significant, sustained progress at GCSE and are proud to have been the most improved school in Swindon.
After a visit from Ofsted in November 2022, the academy received a second ‘Good’ judgement in a row.
United Learning
Nova Hreod Academy is part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.
Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.
As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.
Please note we reserve the right to close the vacancy early in light of a large response.
Due to the high volume of applications received, the School is unable to provide individual feedback on why an application is unsuccessful. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Please note that we do not accept speculative CVs from Agencies.
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About Nova Hreod Academy
Nova Hreod
Nova Hreod Academy is well placed in an excellent Location, 1 hour from London, 30 minutes from Bath and 20 minutes to the beautiful Cotswolds. We are lucky enough to have a modern building that was designed with learning and development in mind.
We are committed to becoming one of the country's top-performing schools. At Nova we believe that all children have limitless potential and that all children can succeed when they are educated in an environment that is characterised by high standards of behaviour and excellent teaching. Our entire staff share a common goal: giving every child the best possible chance of success. We are determined to prove that students in Swindon can achieve at the very highest levels.
We deliver on our promise of the best chance of success by ensuring that:
- Students gain high value qualifications which will open as many doors for them in the future as possible
- Students develop a real understanding of subject disciplines, learning knowledge and ways of thinking that take them beyond everyday understanding enabling them to better participate in our democratic society
- Students get the opportunity to take part in many high-quality experiences – trips, visits, clubs and events which allow them to flourish outside the classroom, developing their character.
We place learning at the heart of everything that we do at Nova. Our expert teachers deliver a rich and ambitious academic curriculum in a calm, purposeful atmosphere. Our students work exceptional hard to develop a good understanding of the subject disciplines that we teach.
Beyond the classroom our house system, student leadership opportunities, and our enrichment programme, SuperNova, ensure that students have a wide range of opportunities to develop their character and to find and develop new passions, skills and interests.
At Nova every day we strive to create an atmosphere of joyful excellence where our students experience is characterised by both high standards and high levels of support. Where both fun and hard work are prioritised and where staff develop warm relationships with students whilst ensuring that standards of behaviour remain exemplary at all times.
Our values - Excellence, Hard Work and Kindness are at the heart of everything we do. The leadership team is dedicated not only to academic excellence and character development but also to ensuring that the workload for teachers is balanced, manageable, and well-considered.
How do we reduce workload for teachers?
- High-quality, centralised curriculum resources
- Live marking in lessons, so marking does not need to be taken home
- A centralised behaviour management system
- Visible and supportive senior leadership team (SLT)
- Well-planned deadlines
These are just a few examples of how we’re making sure our teachers can focus on what matters most: delivering excellent lessons to our students.
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