Cover Supervisor
Cover Supervisor
- 0358
- Lift Maltings, Spinks Lane, Witham, Essex, United Kingdom, CM8 1EP
- Permanent
- Lift Maltings
- Closing date: 18 October 2026
- £22,629.41 – £23,354.70
- 37.5
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) + Lift Schools Benefits
- 39 Weeks per year
- Advert opened: 30 September 2026
Are you confident, adaptable and able to build positive relationships with young people? We are looking for a Cover Supervisor to join Lift Maltings and help maintain high-quality learning when teachers are absent.
About the role
As a Cover Supervisor, you will provide essential classroom cover during planned and unplanned teacher absence. You will deliver pre-prepared lesson materials across a range of subjects, explain tasks clearly and ensure students remain focused, complete their work and behave appropriately.
You will help create a calm and orderly learning environment, support students who need additional help, including those with SEND, complete attendance registers and provide feedback to teaching and pastoral colleagues. You may also support student supervision during breaks, lunchtimes and other wider academy activities when required.
Key responsibilities
- Supervise lessons in the absence of the class teacher and deliver pre-prepared lesson materials
- Maintain a positive, calm and orderly classroom, applying the academy behaviour policy consistently
- Support students to understand and complete assigned work, including providing appropriate support to students with SEND
- Complete attendance registers, collect completed work and provide clear feedback to the class teacher
- Liaise with teaching, SEND and pastoral colleagues where student support or welfare issues arise
- Support wider academy duties, including student supervision during breaks, lunchtimes and other activities when required
What we're looking for
- GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 or equivalent, together with A levels or an equivalent Level 3 qualification
- Experience of working with children and young people and the confidence to supervise whole classes
- Knowledge of effective behaviour management strategies and the ability to remain calm, patient and resilient
- Clear and effective communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with students and colleagues
- Adaptability and flexibility to work across different subjects, age groups and changing daily priorities
- Strong teamwork, organisation and the ability to plan and prioritise your workload while maintaining confidentiality
- A commitment to safeguarding, equality and inclusion; experience in education, a degree or PGCE, Google Workspace and Arbor knowledge are desirable
About Lift Maltings
Lift Maltings is an 11–16 school based in Witham, Essex. Situated between the cities of Chelmsford and Colchester, the school has 900 students on roll and benefits from a modern, purpose-built site opened in 2011. With excellent transport links to London, our staff and students can take full advantage of the wealth of opportunities the capital provides. Free car parking facilities are available on site.
Visits to the school are warmly encouraged. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Luke Harper, School Operations Manager, at lharper@liftmaltings.org
Who is Lift Schools?
Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.
How we support you
We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.
Discover how we'll support you to thrive, develop and grow your career in the way that's right for you: How we support you
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
