Cover Supervisor

Lift Firth Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S5 0SD

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  12 October 2026 at 3:23pm

• Date listed

  28 September 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £23929 - £25957 per annum

Cover Supervisor job summary

Your Impact; Their Future: Do you have the potential to make a difference?

We are excited to be adding to our team here at Lift Firth Park, we are seeking a cover supervisor on a 35 hours a week permanent basis. This is a great opportunity for budding teachers to gain valuable experience. If you are looking for a career in education, then come and join our creative, warm and dynamic school.

As a Cover Supervisor, you'll work across different subjects and age groups, using pre-prepared materials to keep lessons moving forward.

About the role

The role will cover classes during both planned and unplanned teacher absences, providing essential support across all subjects, ensuring students' learning progresses uninterrupted. By ensuring the classroom is a calm and focused environment, they contribute significantly to student achievement and advancement. Your contribution will ensure smooth delivery of; an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.

• Guide students through lessons using materials prepared by teachers
• Support positive behaviour and create a calm, focused learning environment
• Help students with SEND to understand tasks and work towards their individual goals
• Provide feedback to teachers on how lessons went and any issues that came up
• Supervise students during breaks and lunchtimes when needed

We are looking for someone who

You'll have experience working with children and young people. You'll know how to build positive relationships with students and use different approaches to support good behaviour. Strong communication skills matter, as does the ability to work well as part of a team. Can you stay calm under pressure, adapt quickly to different situations, and approach each day with patience and empathy? Qualifications, skills and experience we are looking for:

• GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent)
• A levels or Level 3 equivalent
• Experience working with children and young people in a similar role
• Knowledge of a range of strategies to deal with whole-class behaviour and individual behavioural needs.
• Has UK right to work, as this position is not available for sponsorship

About our school.

Lift Firth Park is a vibrant, mixed secondary school for students aged 11-16. Located in Shiregreen, Sheffield, we serve around 1,200 pupils and reflect a richly diverse community, with more than a third of students speaking English as an additional language.
Our school is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformational change, and we are already seeing its positive impact-in the classroom, across the curriculum and throughout our culture. This is an excellent time to join our team. We are looking for individuals who share our dedication to inclusive, aspirational education and who are excited to contribute to our renewed vision and ambitious future.

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.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

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 inline 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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Lift Firth Park

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1115 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Firth Park website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/firth-park-academy

Lift Firth Park is a school with a strong team spirit, high expectations and driving ambition which have led to notable improvements. We are a fully inclusive school with a distinctively inclusive ethos and have the highest aspirations for and expectations of our students.

We continue to work tirelessly to ensure our examination results continue to improve, that students continue to feel happy, safe and cared for, one of our key aims is that everybody deserves the chance to fly; and that the students are challenged and developed academically by the stimulating and rewarding education they receive.

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