Job Reference: EDV/2025/DFA/11708
Location: St Mary’s Drive, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 0LL
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full-Time
Salary: £28,142.00 – £30,024.00 Annually (FTE)
Grade 4. Pro-rata for the hours advertised (£24,437 – £26,072)
Closing Date: 9:00am, Tue 1st Sep, 2026
Start Date: Immediate
Positions Available: 1
Interview Date(s): 24th April 2026
The Candidate
We are looking to appoint a confident, adaptable and highly organised cover supervisor to join our team at The de Ferrers Academy. This role will support the continuity of learning across the academy by supervising classes during teacher absence and ensuring that pre-prepared work is delivered effectively.
Responsibilities include maintaining a purposeful learning environment, supporting students to stay on task, managing classroom behaviour in line with academy expectations, and providing clear guidance to help students make progress.
The successful candidate will be able to communicate clearly, build positive relationships with students and staff, and demonstrate confidence in managing a classroom. They will have strong interpersonal skills, a calm and professional approach, and the ability to support students’ learning in a structured and consistent way.
Hours: 37 hours per week, 39.2 weeks per year.
Benefits of Joining Affinity
- Investment in your professional development and CPD through our Professional Growth Model
- Removal of performance-related pay
- A commitment to dignity and respect in the workplace
- Opportunities for collaborative working through leadership and staff networks
- A Trust-wide approach to reducing workload
- Wellbeing initiatives supported by our Wellbeing Champion Network
- One dedicated wellbeing day per academic year
Additional wider package includes:
- Employee Assistance Programme and mental health support services
- Access to Benenden Health’s self-pay private healthcare service
- Discounted gym membership with Everyone Active
- Cycle to Work scheme
- BHSF health cash plan
- Eye care vouchers
- Flu vaccination vouchersGenerous pension schemes through Teachers Pensions and the Local Government Pension Scheme
Additional Information
Please note that we do not hold a sponsorship licence and, therefore, are unable to employ individuals residing outside of the UK or candidates living within the UK who require continued sponsorship to work in the UK.
All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement
We welcome a broad range of perspectives with a commitment to equality of opportunity by recruiting a diverse workforce, and creating an inclusive environment and a culture of belonging for everyone in Affinity Learning Partnership. Therefore, we encourage applications from underrepresented communities irrespective of age, disability, race, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, marriage or civil partnership status, or neurodivergent status. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible through the recruitment process should this be required.
Safeguarding
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and this position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
#J-18808-Ljbffr…