Cover Supervisor

St Peter; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic individual to support teaching and learning. The role involves delivering lessons in the absence of a class teacher, ensuring students make progress through the curriculum. This is a full-time permanent position, requiring 32.5 hours per week, with participation in evening events such as Parents’ evenings. The successful candidate will undergo safeguarding checks, and applications are welcome from all qualified professionals.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic individual with a commitment to supporting teaching and learning.
• Ability to deliver lessons in the absence of a class teacher.
• Willingness to participate in evening events.

Responsibilities

• Deliver lessons to ensure students continue learning.
• Access various subject areas across the curriculum.
• Progress students through their learning journey.

Job description

The Governors wish to appoint an enthusiastic individual to support Teaching and Learning within our school. The role involves delivering lessons in the absence of a class teacher, to ensure that students continue to learn new knowledge and have opportunities to revisit prior knowledge, so that they continue to progress through the curriculum. Every day is different, and the variety of the role means you will access many subject areas and aspects of our school.

Salary / grade range

Contract: Full time, Permanent, Term time only + 5 training days.

Grade 5, points 13 to 19 – £29,064 to £32,061

Pro-rata to actual salary estimates £23,214.65

32.5 hours per week, 8.30 – 15.30

There is also a requirement to work during evening events such as Parents’ evening or celebration evenings.

Location

St Peter’s RC High School

Start date

As soon as all pre-employment checks are complete

St Peter’s RC High school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to a DBS check along with standard pre-employment safeguarding checks.

Please note that new guidance in keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates.

This is to enable us to identify any incidents or issues which happened and are publicly available online which we might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend on interview.

St Peter’s is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified professionals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion or any other protected characteristics.

Closing date

Friday 9 th January 2026

Shortlisting

Week commencing Monday 12 th January 2026

Interview date

Week commencing Monday 12 th January 2026