Cover Supervisor Role

Protocol Education; Harrow; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Protocol Education is seeking a proactive Cover Supervisor for Harrow Secondary mainstream schools. You will supervise classes during short-term absences, deliver clear instructions, and support student progress.

The role requires strong behaviour management, organisation, and excellent communication to engage learners. The ideal candidate can adapt quickly, stay calm under pressure, and use IT tools effectively to manage lessons and attendance.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising classes and maintaining order in a busy secondary school environment.
• Ability to implement teacher instructions and manage behaviour effectively.
• Proactive, with strong organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervise whole classes during teacher absence.
• Attend to students and ensure completion of set work.
• Check daily cover arrangements and distribute resources as needed.
• Register students and ensure punctuality and discipline.
• Enforce school policies and safeguarding procedures.

Skills

Behaviour management

Organised

Communication

Student engagement

Flexible

Self-motivated

Calm under pressure

IT skills

Attention to detail

Education

None

Job description

Cover Supervisor Role

830am-330pm

Flexible days

Harrow Secondary Mainstream Schools

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to oversee classes during the short-term absence of teaching staff, supporting the progress of our students. The successful candidate should be able to supervise whole classes and give instructions using their initiative to support teaching and learning throughout the school.

The successful applicant is likely to demonstrate the following qualities/skills:

• Extremely strong behaviour management
• be well organised
• have excellent communication skills and student engagement
• be flexible, self-motivated and self-directed
• be calm under pressure
• have good IT skills
• have attention to detail

More details of the role;

To supervise whole classes when teachers are absent and to assist students in completing work set to ensure that effective learning takes place.

• Cover for absent teachers
• Check lessons to be covered each day.
• Collect cover work via email/from the cover box in the Staff Room.
• Be punctual for the start and end of lessons and begin lessons promptly.
• Register the class every lesson (within the first 5 minutes) using the school’s electronic registration system as a check on punctuality, internal truancy etc. and ask students to use your title or ‘Yes’ or ‘Yes Miss/Sir’.
• Explain to students the work that has been set and project it/write it on the board. Distribute resources as appropriate.
• Supervise the class in the absence of the class teacher, expect and encourage high standards of work and assist the students in completing work set.
• Do not permit the students to leave the classroom without a valid reason. Students should be issued with an out of lesson pass in their contact book if they leave the room.
• Check the room is tidy and litter free at both the beginning and end of the lesson and, if not, ask students to assist in tidying up.
• Follow the school’s Behaviour for Learning Policy with due regard to behaviour expectations, rewards and sanctions.
• Follow up on any behaviour issues promptly using the School’s procedure - by the end of the day unless serious in which case immediate action is required.
• Use school systems to remove students who disrupt the learning of others.
• Ask students to stand before being dismissed formally at the end of the lesson - students should leave the class before you.
• Make sure the board is clean before you leave the room, turn off the interactive whiteboard and log off the computer.
• Return lesson details, register and work completed by students to the pigeon hole of the member of staff you are covering before the end of the day.
• Undertake form registration for absent form tutors, supervise students during form time and undertake any duties required of the absent form tutor in this time
• Uphold the ethos and policies of the school, including the commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details. All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date. Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service. Full assistance provided. For details of our privacy policy, please see visit the Protocol Education website.