• About The Role

  • Please note: This is a casual contract
     
    Avanti Grange Secondary School is seeking a dedicated and organised Cover Supervisor to play a key role in supporting teaching and learning across our school.
     
    This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who is passionate about education and committed to helping young people achieve their full potential. Working within a supportive and values-led environment, you will contribute to our vision of Educational Excellence, Character Development and Spiritual Insight.
     
    If you enjoy working with young people and thrive in a varied and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you.
    What will you do?
    • Deliver effective classroom supervision for lessons affected by teacher absence, ensuring students remain engaged in learning and complete the work provided.
    • Coordinate daily cover arrangements using Arbor MIS, ensuring lessons are appropriately staffed and resources are prepared and returned.
    • Promote high standards of behaviour, attendance, wellbeing and achievement by consistently implementing school policies and procedures.
    • Provide additional support across the school, including student supervision, administrative tasks, exam invigilation and assistance with learning activities as required.
    • To implement school policies and procedures; for Climate for Learning, registration, health and safety etc 

  • About Us

  • Why should you apply  

      

    You will be working in a fantastic environment. 

    Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place. 

    We offer a range of staff benefits including professional development opportunities, retail discounts, flexible working options, well-being programs, and more; further details at the bottom of the page. 

     
    What are we looking for?
    • Educated to at least Level 2 (A*-C GCSE) – including in English and mathematics
    • Good knowledge and skills in the use of ICT/Technology
    • An ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
    • An ability to work creatively as an individual and as part of a team
    • Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people within the school. 
    Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role. 
     
    Further information
    Pre-employment checks
    Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
    Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

    Diversity and Inclusion
    We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. 
    Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
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About our School

Avanti Grange is Bishop’s Stortford’s newest secondary school, already recognised as Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted (2025). Our state-of-the-art campus serves families across Bishop’s Stortford and neighbouring villages, and is home to a vibrant, ambitious and supportive community. The school is heavily oversubscribed, reflecting its strong reputation locally and the demand to be part of our journey.

We are a co-educational community school, part of the Avanti Schools Trust, with a clear vision to inspire spiritually compassionate changemakers. Our staff are motivated by a shared purpose: to deliver exceptional teaching, foster character formation, and nurture wellbeing. As one colleague put it: “Working at Avanti Grange feels like being part of a family with a shared, values-driven mission.”

We are equally committed to the growth of our staff as to the success of our students. In 2024, we were awarded the Teacher Development Trust Gold Award for the quality and culture of our professional development – recognition held by only a small number of schools nationally. Through education-leading CPD and coaching, colleagues at Avanti Grange thrive in an environment where “better never stops.”

Students benefit from a rigorous, knowledge-rich curriculum, underpinned by yoga, mindfulness, and an exceptional co-curricular programme. Our pastoral system is a defining strength: impeccable behaviour supports high-quality learning, while wellbeing is woven into daily life through practices that allow both staff and students to flourish.

With more than 660 students on roll and growing each year towards a full secondary and sixth form, Avanti Grange offers a rare opportunity to help shape one of the most exciting schools in the region.