Cover Supervisor / Day Student and Learning Mentor

Oshsch; Stourbridge; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workplace pension (NEST)

Job summary

Old Swinford Hospital in Stourbridge seeks a Cover Supervisor / Day Student Pastoral and Learning Mentor to engage pupils across subjects. Term-time, full-time role with 35 hours weekly, 8:15am–3:45pm, at £13.47 per hour plus holiday pay.

The post includes pastoral duties, learning support and collaboration with teaching staff; a degree is desirable, with strong ICT and communication skills desired to foster student development.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (desirable).
• GCSE Maths and English grade C or above.
• Motivation to work with children and young people.
• Experience in a classroom role including organisation and management.
• Ability to deliver curriculum with effective behaviour and learning strategies.
• Good administrative, organisational and computer skills.
• Work constructively as part of a team and show initiative.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervise work set by absent teachers to maintain learning atmosphere.
• Provide pastoral support and track attendance for day students.
• Support planning and delivery of the curriculum.
• Assist with supervision before/after lessons and co-curriculars.
• Maintain classroom discipline and high expectations.
• Report issues using established procedures; liaise with parents when needed.

Skills

Motivation to work with children

Classroom management

Curriculum planning support

Behaviour and learning strategies

ICT to support learning

Oral and written communication

Team collaboration

Organisational skills

Administrative skills

Education

Degree level education (desirable)

Tools

None

Job description

Salary: £13.47 per hour plus statutory holiday pay

Closing Date: Thursday, 12th November 2026

Location: Stourbridge - DY8 1QX

Type: Term Time - Full Time

Description:

Old Swinford Services Ltd are currently seeking a motivated and organised Cover Supervisor / Day Student Pastoral and learning Mentor who is passionate about student development and delivering engaging lessons across a range of subjects.

Old Swinford Hospital is one of the country’s leading state boarding schools. A large number of the School’s students are boarders who come from a wide range of backgrounds in the UK and also from the EU and overseas. A third of our pupils are day pupils, who usually go home after lessons, unless they are involved in sport or music, CCF or DofE. The School is now on an exciting journey to become fully co-educational by 2025. Girls joined us in September 2021 in Year 7, whilst the Sixth Form has been mixed since 2004.

OSH is calm place to work. It is inclusive, tolerant and welcoming. The atmosphere is supportive and orderly, and it is also very relaxed because for many of our pupils their school is also their home. Parents, pupils and staff are all on the same side and our pupils want to learn before going out into the wider world and making their own contribution to it.

We have recently had two Ofsted visits, one for boarding and one for curriculum. You can see these via our website www.oshsch.com We enjoy a very good academic reputation and regularly feature in the lists of the most academically successful maintained schools. We’re not about league tables, however. We pride ourselves on developing in our pupils a balance of academic achievement, character and resilience and we’ve been doing this now for nearly 360 years.

Our extensive extra-curricular programme contributes to our pupils becoming happy, healthy and interested young people, for whom sport, music, art, drama, outdoor pursuits feature in their everyday lives.

A major building programme has recently been completed which includes a large extension to an already impressive sports centre, an all-weather floodlit sports pitch, a new teaching block with a specialist arts room, a performing arts centre and a new senior boarding house.

Person Specification

• Educated to degree level (desirable);
• GCSE Maths and English Grade C or above;
• Motivation to work with children and young people;
• Experience in a classroom role including classroom organisation and management, supporting the planning and delivery of the curriculum, implementing behaviour and learning strategies;
• Ability to undertake a range of teaching activities with confidence, working effectively with individual pupils, groups of pupils and whole class;
• Good administrative, organisational and computer skills;
• Work constructively and collaboratively as part of a team whilst being able to demonstrate initiative;
• Effective use of ICT to support learning;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Job Specification

1. Under the guidance of teaching staff to provide supervision to whole classes during the short-term absence of teachers. The Cover Supervisor ensures that work set by a teacher is properly completed, that a good learning atmosphere is maintained, in the classroom at all times and that school policies on dress and behaviour are upheld.

2. Provides adult supervision for day students before lessons, during break and lunchtimes alongside other members of staff. Also, works with other members of staff to provide pastoral support and in tracking and monitoring the behaviour and attendance of day students, contacting home when appropriate to do so.

Specific Responsibilities

• Supervise work set by absent Teachers or Head of Department;
• Manage a classroom, ensuring that students remain on task with the work they have been set;
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, acting as a role model and setting high expectations;
• Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils in the classroom, recognising and responding to their individual needs;
• Manage the behaviour of pupils within the School’s policies;
• Report, using the School’s established referral procedures, issues concerning attendance or behaviour;
• Assist pupils in the completion of work as appropriate;
• Collect completed work and return it as required by the Teacher or Head of Department;
• Attend and participate in meetings and CPD concerning pupils or school policies and practices from time to time as required;
• From time to time assist teaching staff with the supervision of school visits, trips and co-curricular activities;
• Cover am and pm registration when required;
• Supervise day student areas before lessons, at break and lunch alongside other members of school staff whilst based in the Sixth Form centre when not supervising cover lessons;
• Contact the parents and guardians of students when pastoral support is needed or when patterns of behaviour and attendance fall below our expectations and arrange for them to come into School;
• Provide cover in the Refocus room as requested by the Deputy Head;
• Provides Pastoral Support for students and liaises with Head of Sixth Form, Head of Years and Form tutors to support students;
• Provides Learning Support for students in independent study periods;
• Participate in the promotion of your department and the School, including Induction Days, Open Days and Open Evenings as requested by SLT;
• Works with the Head of Sixth form and Head of Day Students to oversee the quality of the day student common areas, reporting faults or repair issues via the online reporting system;
• To undertake such other duties as the Headmaster or SLT may from time to time reason reasonably require.

Hours & Remuneration of Work

The hours of work are 35 hours per week, term time (37 weeks).

The work pattern is Monday to Friday 8.15am to 3.45pm with a 30 minute break.

The rate of pay is £13.47 per hour plus statutory holiday pay.

In line with current regulation you will, if you are eligible, be offered a workplace pension through NEST.

Old Swinford Services Ltd welcomes applications for employment from all sectors of the community.

Suitability to work with Children

Old Swinford Services Ltd is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants are required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised date if a large number of applications have been received.