Job profile
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Job details
Job reference
REQ
Date posted
29/07/2025
Application closing date
02/09/2025
Location
Barnsley (Darton Academy)
Salary
Grade F Points 14 – 19 (£29,540 - £31,537 Full Time, all year-round equivalent). The minimum actual pro rata salary per annum for this job starts at £25,520
Annual weeks
39 (term time only plus 5 days).
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Education Support
Senior Cover Supervisor
Job description
Darton Academy are looking to appoint a Senior Cover Supervisor to join our academy in October 2025, on a permanent, full time basis.
Are you looking for a role that will enable you to influence and give direction to the children in a large successful academy? Do you want to work for a Trust that is transforming educational outcomes for students in some of the most deprived areas in the North of England? If so, this could be the role for you.
Your new role
As the Senior Cover Supervisor, you will manage cover for day to day and longer-term absences for teaching staff to minimise the disruption to the learning process.
When you are not booking/organising cover arrangements, you will fulfil the duties of a Cover Supervisor by providing supervision of pupil learning within the academy. You will need to respond to questions and generally assist students to undertake set activities and uphold standards of behaviour in the classroom. In addition to cover needs, you will be required to work alongside teaching and classroom-based staff to provide general support for departments. This is a key role in supporting the day-to-day running of the academy/school. It is important for you to be ICT literate and competent in using a variety of software packages.
Please see the job description on our website for more information on the criteria and role.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience required for this position, then we would very much like to hear from you.
Your new school
Darton Academy is an exciting place to learn and as soon as you enter the building you can feel a buzz of enthusiasm. There is a sense of purpose, and the academy is calm and orderly, with state-of-the-art facilities. We are a close-knit community, and we pride ourselves on knowing our pupils well and doing our utmost to ensure everyone fulfils their true potential.
We aim to ensure that our pupils can learn in a safe and supportive environment, where everyone values academic achievement and has a positive attitude to learning. As a result of our journey of continuous improvement, our pupils secured an amazing set of exam results in the summer of 2024, with 54% of pupils achieving a grade 5 or higher in maths and English, and 73% achieving a grade 4 or higher. We continue to go from strength to strength and our progress 8 score is 0.37 which far exceeds expectations for pupils of similar ability nationally. Darton Academy is yet again the highest performing school in Barnsley. In February 2023 Ofsted graded us Good with an outstanding personal development offer.
We strongly encourage our pupils to take part in enrichment activities so they can discover all their strengths and talents, and run over forty clubs, as well as pupil support sessions and interventions. We also regularly organise whole school events and educational visits so that our pupils have a broad experience of learning beyond the classroom.
We believe in rewarding pupils for good behaviour, attendance and achievement and run a number of celebration events throughout the year, from "Super September" to our summer "DartFest". We place learning at the heart of everything we do and use our core values of respect, responsibility, and resilience to build a positive ethos.
Why join us?
Staff across the trust are talented and enthusiastic, and all contribute to the trust's success story.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an outstanding team within a high-performing multi academy trust with exciting career prospects for successful applicants.
As a Trust, we have developed an extensive range of employee benefits that focus on your Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing. Here are just a few examples in each area…
Financial Wellbeing:
* Membership to either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or the Local Government Pension Scheme
* Technology scheme and Vehicle Leasing Scheme*
* Access to an extensive discount's platform
Physical Wellbeing:
* 24/7 access to an online GP or Advanced Nurse Practitioner for you & your household
* Gym & fitness discounts
* Cycle to Work scheme*
* Free annual flu jab
Mental Wellbeing:
* Access to an industry-leading Employee Assistance Programme
* Menopause Support Service
* Trained Mental Health First Aiders in all our settings
* Subject to ensuring NMW is maintained
* Holiday Entitlement: minimum 35 days (subject to pro rata if working part-time and dependent upon salary and continuous service) including statutory Bank Holidays.
In accordance with DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education, an online search will be completed on all shortlisted applicants prior to interview. Any relevant information will be discussed further with the applicant during the recruitment process.