Cover Supervisor

eTeach UK Limited; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Holiday entitlement

Medicash Health & Wellbeing

Discount for teachers

Eye tests

Cycle to work

Job summary

The Shaw Education Trust’s Westleigh School is seeking a confident Cover Supervisor to support teaching and learning in our secondary school. You will supervise classes in the absence of a teacher, deliver pre-prepared materials, and help keep students engaged and on task.

We value strong communication, positive behaviour management, and the ability to lead a class. This role offers meaningful work within a supportive trust that provides extensive professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Confident, enthusiastic and reliable.
• Strong communication and behaviour management skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervising whole classes across a range of subjects and year groups.
• Delivering pre-set work and ensuring students remain engaged in their learning.
• Managing classroom behaviour effectively and maintaining a positive learning environment.
• Supporting students with their work and encouraging them to achieve their best.
• Ensuring lesson objectives are followed and work is completed.
• Reporting any issues or concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
• Supporting the wider school team with additional duties where required.

Job description

Join Our Secondary School Team! We are seeking a confident, enthusiastic and reliable Cover Supervisor to join our team and play an important role in supporting teaching and learning across our secondary school. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with young people, has strong communication and behaviour management skills, and can confidently lead a classroom in the absence of a teacher. As a Cover Supervisor, you will be responsible for supervising classes during the short-term absence of teaching staff, ensuring that students remain engaged, focused and on task by delivering pre-prepared lesson materials.

Responsibilities

• Supervising whole classes across a range of subjects and year groups.
• Delivering pre-set work and ensuring students remain engaged in their learning.
• Managing classroom behaviour effectively and maintaining a positive learning environment.
• Supporting students with their work and encouraging them to achieve their best.
• Ensuring lesson objectives are followed and work is completed.
• Reporting any issues or concerns to the appropriate member of staff.
• Supporting the wider school team with additional duties where required.

Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring The Westleigh school is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Westleigh School is a great place to learn and a great place to work. Uniting with The Shaw Education Trust brings with it new opportunities and a wealth of resources to supplement our mission to improve outcomes for all our students. Colleagues will have access to a large range of well-established training opportunities, such as a fully funded L5 Instructional Coaching qualification or Accelerated Leadership training, for those aspiring to Middle Leadership. Outstanding teachers will also achieve Trust Professional Advocate designation, which provides exciting opportunities to support colleagues within both The Westleigh School and across other SET schools to share best practice. With this brings the opportunity to engage in the cross-trust peer review and Trust CPD programme.

Shaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life.

Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, or leading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful. Our values—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything we do.

Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power of

learning.”

We bring this to life through our mission: working together to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voice matters, and every learner thrives. We are a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools, proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury. Our people are our greatest asset, and we are deeply committed to their development through high-quality training, apprenticeships, talent development programmes, and research opportunities, we empower our staff to thrive as skilled, confident professionals. We champion wellbeing, value every voice, and foster a culture where you feel supported, motivated, and inspired to make a real difference. You will join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and a strong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust has an equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailored learning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures. If you have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and create futures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team. Together, let’s make the remarkable happen. We believe every child has the potential to be extraordinary. In our secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach to curriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for all students, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculum models don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate and provide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. We want our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful, and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of our innovation include moving towards a trust wide approach to enrichment and competitions, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunities for essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducing vocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal school curriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities to develops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto T Levels and apprenticeships.

Employee Benefits

Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff)/Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye TestsCycle to work schemeAccess to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.

Actual Salary: £22,401 - £24,539