Cover Supervisor

Cover Supervisor

Pay Scale: £100 – £150 per day

Contract: Flexible day-to-day, short-term and long-term supply opportunities

Start Date: Immediate and September starts available

Location: Harrogate and surrounding areas

Secondary Education | Flexible Cover Supervisor Opportunities

Career Teachers is looking for confident, reliable and enthusiastic Cover Supervisors to work with secondary schools across Harrogate and the surrounding areas. Career Teachers are working very closely with a well established trust local to Harrogate and can offer consistent work within the the trust schools. This is a fantastic opportunity for experienced Cover Supervisors, graduates considering a career in teaching, sports coaches, youth workers or individuals with strong experience supporting young people.

About the role:

As a Cover Supervisor, you will supervise classes during the short-term absence of the teacher, deliver pre-prepared work and help maintain a positive, focused and safe learning environment. You will work across a variety of subjects, support pupils in staying on task and follow school behaviour and safeguarding procedures.

About You:

You will be calm, adaptable and confident leading a classroom independently. You do not need to be a qualified teacher, but you should have strong communication skills, the ability to build rapport quickly and a genuine interest in helping young people succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise whole classes during teacher absence, ensuring students remain focused and engaged
• Deliver pre-prepared lesson plans across a range of secondary subjects
• Manage classroom behaviour in line with school policies and expectations
• Create a positive, safe and productive learning environment for pupils
• Support students with their learning and encourage participation where needed
• Follow safeguarding, behaviour, attendance and health and safety procedures
• Provide feedback to teaching staff at the end of lessons where required

Essential requirements:

• Experience working with secondary-aged pupils or young people in a school, coaching, mentoring, tutoring, youth work or similar setting
• Confidence managing groups of students and leading a classroom independently
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• A calm, professional and adaptable approach
• A genuine interest in supporting the progress and well-being of young people
• Reliability, punctuality and the ability to follow school policies and instructions
• Eligibility to work in the UK and willingness to complete safeguarding checks

Desirable experience:

• Previous experience as a Cover Supervisor or Teaching Assistant
• Experience supporting pupils across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4
• A degree or relevant education, childcare, coaching or youth work qualification
• Knowledge of school safeguarding and behaviour procedures

Our benefits:

• A Refer a Friend Scheme giving you a bonus of up to £250
• Exclusive vacancies within local Schools and Multi Academy Trusts 
• Competitive weekly pay
• Assignments paid to a scale after 12 weeks (AWR)
• Online time sheets
• Your own dedicated consultant
• Guaranteed pay schemes
• Genuine refer a friend scheme
• Affinity Extra – Thousands of discounts on multiple high street shops including coffee and cinemas, plus other benefits and a Health & Well-being portal.

*These benefits are applicable to those who are working with Career Teachers. You will gain access to the Affinity Extra this portal once you start working with us.

All roles will require an enhanced criminal record disclosure (DBS), although we can help with this process a new application is required if your current DBS is not on the update service, and reference checks.

If you are a confident Cover Supervisor looking for flexible work across secondary schools in the Harrogate area, please send across your CV by clicking the apply button. If not, check out our website for a range of opportunities that might excite you!

Career Teachers are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcomes applications regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief pregnancy and maternity or disability as well as adhering to strict Safeguarding procedures.

This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. Career Teachers operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.

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