Cover Manager
Job Title: Cover Manager – 4 hrs per day, 5 days a week, term-time only.
Reports to: Assistant Headteacher
Salary: Starting salary NJC scale 5, scale point 12, pro-rata salary: £14,956 pa (FTE £34,524)
Rising to NJC scale 5, scale point 17, pro-rata salary: £16,256 pa (FTE £33,912)
Working Days: 5 days per week, 20 hours per week, 38.6 weeks per year, (term time only).
Working Hours: 7.00am – 11.00am daily.
Place of Work: Vyners School
Start date: 1 September 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a COVER MANAGER. The successful applicant will provide an efficient and professional organisation of the daily class cover arrangements to minimise the effect on student learning due to staff absence, and line manage 3 cover supervisors. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced, calm, confident and proactive person who wishes to develop their organisational, managerial and administrative experience. Previous experience of working in a school is desirable but not essential.
The school is able to extend the hours for this position for a candidate willing to undertake lesson cover between 11am and 3pm. This increases the weekly hours to 37.5 hrs, and the salary range to £28,042 - £30,166 (actual salary per annum).
Vyners is a very popular and oversubscribed mixed eight form entry, 11-18 comprehensive school, situated in a pleasant residential area in North West London, bordering Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We have a track record of real success at all Key Stages. In 2024, 81% of students achieved grades 9-4 in both English and Maths at GCSE and we are consistently ranked in the top 10% of all schools nationally for progress measures and attainment. At A-Level 26% of all grades were A* - A and 50% A* - B. The school converted to academy status on 1 November 2011 and is part of the Vanguard Learning Trust which also includes one other secondary and three primary schools.
We are well known for high academic standards, good behaviour, and our strong community spirit including a strong house system with students leading their peers. “Pupils benefit from excellent relationships with each other and with staff. They are well cared for and have adults they trust and who they can talk to if they have problems” (Ofsted, 2025). Many students are involved in extracurricular sport, music and drama, performing at a high level including prestigious public events and performing in our own school productions.
As part of the Vanguard Learning Trust, we also offer staff developmental opportunities via the trust and support from other professionals in the same role across the trust schools.
Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?
Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice.
An application form can be downloaded from the Vyners School website: www.vynersschool.org.uk where all information about this post can be obtained.
Applications should be returned to:
Frances Webb, via email to: recruitment@vynersschool.org.uk. Tel: 01895 200853
CLOSING DATE: 9.00am on Friday 11 July 2025
Early applications will be considered and suitable candidates may be offered an interview before the closing date.
Vanguard Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.
