Job Description

Stocksbridge High School

Sheffield
25,584 - 27,711 per year

Salary:

NJC Grade 4, point 7 to 12

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

08 September 2025

Apply by:

3 September 2025

Job overview

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Post: Cover Supervisor

Location: Stocksbridge High School

Pay scale: NJC Grade 4, point 7: 25,584 to 12: 27,711 gross per annum

Actual

Annual Salary: 22,569.93 to 24,446.35 (under 5 years of service)

Contract: Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week, 40 working weeks

Start date: As soon as possible

Minerva Learning Trust is a growing multi-academy trust committed to providing an outstanding education for students from a wide variety of backgrounds across Sheffield and Derbyshire. Founded in 2014, Minerva Learning Trust has expanded to a thriving family of schools, including primary, secondary, sixth form, and a unique post-16 provision. We have a strong track record of school improvement, successfully transforming schools from Ofsted ratings of RI and Inadequate to GOOD.

Stocksbridge High School is a 11-16 comprehensive school with 800 students on roll. We are an ambitious and inclusive school rooted firmly within our community. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and capable Cover Supervisor with well-developed interpersonal skills to:

Provide cover teaching for classes by delivering set work in the absence of their scheduled teacher. Be able to liaise with teachers to discuss cover work set for planned absence and to provide feedback about student progress and behaviour following the covering of lessons. Be able to support the use of ICT in delivering lessons and learning activities.


We view the role of cover supervisor as essential to the running of the school and the continuity of learning for young people. It is an ideal opportunity for anyone considering teaching as a career as it provides direct experience of the classroom, the whole school environment and directly working with young people. The successful candidates will have a flexible approach and the confidence and presence to manage whole classes in a professional manner. Applicants should have very good literacy and numeracy skills and the ability and desire to work with young people. In return, you will join a friendly and welcoming school community prepared to develop you as a professional through training and support.

The closing date is 9am on Wednesday 03 September 2025 with interviews scheduled to take place shortly afterwards.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment, further information can be found in our child protection and safeguarding policy on our statutory information page on our website Minerva Learning Trust. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. In line with KCSIE, the trust/school will be carrying out online searches on shortlisted candidates as part of their due diligence.

The application form and information pack are available on the school website www.hgcsc.co.uk Please ensure that you do not fill in a Sheffield City Council application form in respect of this vacancy, ONLY MINERVA LEARNING TRUST APPLICATION FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

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About

Stocksbridge High School

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Stocksbridge High School

Shay House Lane, Stocksbridge, Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S36 1FD
United Kingdom

+44 114 288 3153

Head Teacher - Ben Gilder

Every one of the young people we serve is entitled to thrive at school so that they may leave skilled, qualified and confident to make a success of their next steps in life. This is achieved through high quality leadership, teaching and support from our staff so that all students learn and progress well. Working at Stocksbridge High School means that you will always hold young people in high regard and have nothing but the highest of expectations for their learning, conduct and aspiration. This is reflected in our core vison of Believe, Achieve, Succeed' and felt by our values of:


Be Positive

Be Kind

Be Confident

Be Reflective


We are here to make a difference to the young people and families of Stocksbridge and we aim to be recognised as outstanding in this endeavour. It is an exciting time to join our school and if you share that ambition and determination, I look forward to receiving your application.

Values and vision

All Students will be challenged to build ambitious future plans. Working together we will develop their character, skills, and capacity to make their ambitions a reality. Our vision is based upon the principles of "

Believe, Achieve, Succeed

". Students will have belief in their own potential. They make positive choices, can acknowledge, and celebrate their successes and tackle obstacles to progress with hard work and determination. Students are challenged in every learning experience, every day to produce the highest quality work, through which they achieve their personal and academic goals.



Successful students have high expectations of themselves and strive to meet these expectations every day.

Ofsted report

May 2022 - 50186916 (ofsted.gov.uk)

About Minerva Learning Trust

Chief Executive Officer - Bev Matthews

Minerva Learning Trust is a multi-academy trust of schools. We are committed to providing an outstanding education for pupils who are from a wide variety of backgrounds across the city of Sheffield. Inclusion is very important to us. We do not allow disadvantage to be a barrier to learning and we support all our pupils to be the very best. Our pupils show a high level of care for each other and respect each other's diversity.



Founded In 2014, Minerva Learning Trust grew from an outstanding single-academy, and has since grown to include primary, secondary, sixth form and one, unique post-16 provision. We have demonstrated a successful tenure of school improvement, growing schools from RI and inadequate Ofsted status to GOOD overall.

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