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Cover Supervisor - Fixed Term

Leigh Academy Marden, Tonbridge

  • Ref:KCC886-2183-151S
  • Posted:21/10/2025
  • Pay: Actual salary £12,176per annum
  • Start Date:November 2025
  • App Close Date:10/11/2025 at 23:45
  • Interviews:TBC

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Leigh Academy Marden has a rare and exciting opportunity to appoint an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced Cover Supervisor to join our highly collaborative and supportive team, covering PPA and Leadership release time for our teachers. Our teaching support team is pivotal to our success in the classroom and the Cover Supervisor will strengthen the team even further with their knowledge, experience and additional support that they can provide our teaching staff with. This is a fantastic opportunity for those who already have experience in this capacity.

Our successful applicant will work under the guidance of the Principal and teaching staff to deliver high quality, challenging and motivating learning experiences. They will be able to establish strong working relationships with staff and students alike, be able to work as part of a team and will be a reliable and excellent communicator. A Level 3 qualification in childcare, or a subject specialism is highly desirable. Experience of working with primary aged children is essential.

The actual salary for this role is £12,176 (£26,861 full time equivalent). You will work three days per week during term time plus one week of inset days. Working hours are 8:30 am to 3:30 pm each day. The academy offers flexibility on which three days are worked.

Working with us at Leigh Academy Marden

Leigh Academy Marden is a thriving and growing primary academy serving the beautiful village community of Marden, Kent. With 45 pupils in each year group and potential for future expansion, Marden's children are our biggest asset. We seek passionate, determined educators ready to provide them with a positive future.

You'll join a supportive, committed team delivering a broad, balanced curriculum. As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, our provision is enhanced through the Primary Years Programme (PYP), an aspirational, inquiry-led framework that delivers the National Curriculum through in-context experiences. This approach encourages children to be risk-takers, lifelong learners, and global citizens.

At Marden, every child deserves a nurturing, safe, and inspiring community. We share an ambitious vision and promote high expectations for all, continuously striving to improve. Our success is significantly bolstered by our supportive parents and carers, who are vital partners in achieving high-quality outcomes. Additionally, as part of Leigh Academies Trust, we benefit from a hub of innovative educational providers, accessing a wealth of current thinking and research.

Discover more about our vibrant academy by visiting our website.

Information about the school

Welcome to Marden Primary Academy, a thriving and growing community based school which is at the heart of the village community.

We pride ourselves on delivering a broad and balanced curriculum, enriched through our after school clubs and co-curricular activities which are made accessible to all. As an IB World School, our curriculum provision is enhanced further through the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP). It is an aspirational high quality inquiry-led learning framework, where the National Curriculum is delivered through in-context experiences. Through the PYP, children are encouraged to be risk-takers, life-long learners and global citizens.

At Marden, we believe that every child deserves the right to a nurturing and caring community, where children feel safe and inspired to learn. We have a shared vision that is ambitious and promotes high expectations for all. Collectively challenging ourselves and one another, showing both support and resilience to continuously improve and achieve, in learning and in life is part of our daily practice.

We are beneficiaries of having such supportive and caring parents and carers, who share our vision of delivering ambitious, inclusive outcomes for our children and are undoubtedly our most important partners in ensuring we achieve such a high quality of education. Also integral to our successes, is the drive and support of Leigh Academies Trust. Belonging to a Trust means we are part of a hub of innovative educational providers with access to a wealth of information and practices rooted in current thinking and research.

Our recent Ofsted report from march 2023 confirms that our behaviour and attitudes, Personal Development and leadership and management are all outstanding. Leaders have ensured that expectations for pupils to behave and work well are very high, including in the early years. Pupils treat each other with respect and kindnessin all year groups and celebrate each other’s differences. As a result, bullying isextremely rare, and pupils have every confidence that staff will resolve it if it doeshappen. Pupils share warm and trusting relationships with staff, who model positive behaviours.

Marden Primary Academy is a happy school where pupils immerse themselves in the life of the school and local community. For instance, they take part in the Easter bonnet parade and produce artwork for the ‘Poppy Walk’ to commemorate Remembrance Day.

Job Contact Information

  • Name:Talent Team, Leigh Academies Trust
  • Address:Carnation Road, Strood, Kent, ME2 2SX
  • Telephone: 01634 412 258
  • Email: Joinus@LATrust.org.uk

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.