Careers Site Advertising End Date
17 Apr 2026
Internal Advertising End Date
17 Apr 2026
Location
Heron Academy - Lambeth
Trust
Advertising Salary
£32,746 actual (£38,070 FTE)
Vacancy Type
Part Time
LSEAT - Schools

About the role:

We are seeking to appoint a highly organised, proactive and committed Cover Supervisor & Manual Handling Lead to join our dedicated team.

This is a rewarding opportunity to play a central role in the smooth running of the school, ensuring high-quality provision for pupils while supporting staff and maintaining consistency across the setting.

About the Role:

As a Cover Supervisor, you will be responsible for coordinating all staff cover arrangements in the absence of permanent staff. This includes liaising with external agencies to secure Teaching Assistants and Teachers, as well as managing internal cover.

You will also take a lead role in manual handling across the school, ensuring safe and effective practices are embedded and consistently followed.

The role also includes delivering pre-prepared lessons, supporting learning in class, leading play provision, managing midday supervisors, and delivering physiotherapy programmes between 9:00am and 12:00pm.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate daily cover across the school

  • Liaise with agencies to secure suitable cover staff

  • Manage and deploy midday supervisors

  • Lead structured and unstructured play provision

  • Deliver pre-prepared lessons and provide classroom support

  • Lead delivery of physiotherapy programmes (9:00am–12:00pm)

  • Promote and monitor safe manual handling practices

  • Work collaboratively with staff, SLT and external professionals

About You:

  • Experience working in a school setting (SEND experience desirable)

  • Excellent organisational and communication skills

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure

  • Confident leading groups and supporting pupils’ learning

  • Ability to build positive relationships with staff and external partners

  • Knowledge or experience of manual handling (training can be provided)

  • Flexible, resilient, and solution-focused

What We Offer:

  • A supportive and collaborative staff team

  • Opportunities for professional development and training

  • A rewarding role making a real difference to pupils’ lives

Safeguarding Commitment:

Heron Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and all necessary pre-employment checks, including online searches, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Closing Date: Friday 17th April 2026

Salary: Lambeth Payscale 6, Point 19

About Us

About us

Welcome to Heron Academy, a SLD/ PMLD with complex needs school, committed to providing outstanding education to young people. 

At Heron, we aim to enrich lives, by providing a secure, caring and supportive environment where our pupils are valued, understood, respected and challenged. We strive to deliver a curriculum that promotes lifelong learning and stimulates pupils’ creativity through specialist technology and high-quality learning experiences in school and the community. We believe every pupil has the right to achieve their full potential, and our commitment to a strong partnership with all stakeholders is the key to this success. We welcome you on this journey as we endeavour to provide the best quality education for our pupils.

About the Trust

London South East Academies Trust is a growing and ambitious Multi-Academy Trust, currently comprising mainstream, special and alternative provision academies, alongside an outreach service and a music hub. Our schools are located across Bromley, Bexley, Sussex, Lambeth and Surrey, serving a wide range of communities and educational contexts.

Across the Trust, our schools share a strong commitment to raising attainment, encouraging aspiration and supporting social mobility for every pupil, throughout their educational journey and beyond. We take a holistic but personalised approach to education, recognising that children thrive when their individual strengths, needs and circumstances are properly understood and supported. This enables pupils to flourish and achieve their full potential, whatever their starting point.

We believe that great schools are built by great people. As a Trust, we invest in our staff through strong professional development and leadership opportunities, clear expectations and supportive structures. We actively encourage collaboration and the sharing of best practice across schools, supported by high-quality, cost-effective central services that allow leaders and teachers to focus on what matters most: improving outcomes for pupils.

London South East Academies Trust sits within the Elevare Civic Education Group, which also includes a multi-campus further and higher education college, London South East Colleges and a charitable foundation, Elevare Education Foundation. This unique structure provides meaningful progression pathways for pupils and families, as well as broad development and career opportunities for staff across the wider Group.

Our teams are united by a shared belief in the power of education to change lives. By continuing to grow our Trust and welcoming new expertise and perspectives, we aim to strengthen our schools further and extend the positive impact we have on our communities.

Equal Opportunities

London South East Academies Trust is fully committed to being an Equal Opportunities Employer and to creating a diverse, inclusive and respectful working environment, free from discrimination and harassment. We welcome and encourage applications from all, regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, parental status or marital or partnership status.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we will offer an interview to applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you have accessibility needs or require any reasonable adjustments to support you through the application or interview process, please let us know.

Please note that if a suitable applicant is identified, we may close the advert before the published closing date.

If you have any specific queries about the role, please contact us at [email protected].

As the Trust supports children and vulnerable adults, all roles are exempt from Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and, where relevant, a Children’s and/or Adult’s Barred List check. Any offer of employment may be withdrawn if these checks are unsatisfactory. Self-disclosure is required as part of the recruitment process, and failure to make a full disclosure or to provide sight of a DBS certificate is likely to result in withdrawal of an offer. The Trust’s DBS policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders is available on request.

All appointments are also subject to verification of the right to work in the UK, in line with Home Office requirements. Original documentation will be required prior to commencement of employment.

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