This is a key post as a Cover Coordinator and Administrator

The start date will be as soon as we have satisfactory clearances for the successful candidate. This is a Fixed Term Contract to end December 2025, pending review.

We are looking for an adaptable, flexible, and resourceful team member to work within our team. You will coordinate the cover required due to staff absence, which will directly impact the success and smooth running of our school.

You will undertake a variety of tasks, such as cover coordination, recording staff sickness, and providing administrative support for our pastoral and behaviour processes, and providing data as required to the Senior Leadership Team. If you have strong organisational skills, and experience with relationship management, we would love you to join our team.

Terms and Conditions

This post is 35 hours per week, term time only + 5 INSET days. The salary is BG7, which is currently equivalent to £25,992 rising to £27,269 per annum (gross) (paid pro rata). Working term time only will impact on the actual salary paid. If appointed, you would start at the bottom of the salary range. An early start each day is required (7am) for you to be able to coordinate unscheduled need for cover, i.e. staff sickness.

Our School is committed to safeguarding and further establishing a culture of safeguarding that protects and promotes the welfare of pupils that are in our care. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and all relevant checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place, which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the school.

The School

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple is a successful and heavily oversubscribed 11-18 co-educational, Church of England, comprehensive school of over 1750 students, serving families from the whole of greater Bristol and beyond. We are located at the heart of the city and have a diverse student community with considerable parental support. Our diversity is a strength and something we celebrate. The Redcliffe Sixth Form Centre currently houses approximately 700 students from our own school and from many other schools across the City.

Our Christian ethos is at the centre of our distinctiveness and success. We believe that daily worship helps us get our priorities right. The School has a clearly identified set of values that are reflected in our pastoral and curriculum practice. The School is committed to developing students as whole people and lifelong learners. To facilitate this St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School has developed the Alive model, which seeks to develop competencies, values, and skills in our students to support their development as ‘fully alive’ learners.

Application Process

The closing date is Monday 12 May 2025 (10am). You are encouraged to send in your application form (as a Word document) as soon as possible to be considered.  We do not accept CVs. Applications by email to the email address in our covering letter are recommended. We acknowledge the receipt of all applications received electronically. Please ensure that you complete all parts of the application form, including your personal details, so that we can contact you. It is recommended that you complete your application on a PC or laptop, and not on a mobile device.

We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion. Throughout the application process we ask for some personal data about you. We’ll only use this data in line with data protection legislation and process your data for one or more of the following reasons permitted in law:

• You have given us your consent

• We must process it to comply with our legal obligations