Cover Supervisor and PE Technician

Didsbury High School, Manchester, M20 2ET

14 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  29 June 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  15 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Learning support or cover supervisor
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,531 - £24,700 (Actual salary)

Cover Supervisor and PE Technician job summary

We are seeking a proactive, enthusiastic and reliable Cover Supervisor and PE Technician to join our dedicated team. This is a varied and rewarding role, combining classroom supervision with practical support within the PE department. As a Cover Supervisor, you will supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of teaching staff, ensuring that students remain on task and engaged with pre-set work. As a PE Technician, you will support the smooth running of the department by preparing equipment, maintaining facilities and assisting with the delivery of high-quality physical education. This role is ideal for individuals considering a future career in teaching or those with a passion for sport and supporting young people.

If you would like to join our Laurus family in a rewarding role that changes the lives of our pupils by empowering them to become the best that they can be then we would love to hear from you. 

This position is contracted on a 37 hours per week Term Time Only basis. This means you will mainly work when the school is open to pupils and will not need to work during the school holidays unless the contract requires you to do so. In total you will be in work for a minimum of 37 out of 52 weeks. 

Job Purpose (For further details on the role, please find the Job Description below)

• To provide classroom and registration cover for absent teachers and provide administrative support as requested. 
• To support to the PE Department, taking responsibility for the organisation, coordination and supervision of afterschool sports activities and clubs in addition to coordinating the House Sporting Calendar.

Key Skills & Experience

• Sound educational background including GCSE’s in Maths and English (A*-C) or equivalent 
• Experience working in a school environment would be advantageous 
• Ideally possess prior experience within a similar role 

To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page. At the Laurus Trust, we value the significance of a healthy work/life balance for our employees.  Achieving a better balance can boost motivation and morale, lower stress levels, enhance performance and productivity, and make job opportunities more inclusive. Whenever feasible, we are committed to offering flexible arrangements from the very start, which could include options like part-time roles, term-time working, Job-sharing and compressed hours.

A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.

We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.

Disability Confident Employer

We value diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are an inclusive employer and welcome all applications. Disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments for an interview, please highlight this to our Recruitment Team in advance.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.

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 Didsbury High School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1181 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Didsbury High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/didsbury-high-school

Didsbury High School is a secondary free school for 11-18 students in South Manchester. The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education already provided by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and was recently named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022 and this year, was awarded ‘Northwest Comprehensive School of the Year 2024’.

Didsbury High School is the most oversubscribed first preference school in Manchester, we are a non-selective, non-denominational school, which opened in September 2019. We currently have students in Years 7 to 11 along with our brand-new sixth form that opened in September 2023 with students now in Year 12 and 13! We currently have approximately 1200 students on roll.

The 2024-25 academic year saw Didsbury High Schools second set of GCSE results. 61% of students achieved at least a grade 5 or above in both English and Maths and 80% of achieved at least a grade 4. On top of this, almost 40% of the schools' grades were grade 7 or higher demonstrating outstanding academic performance across a broad range of subjects. The summer of 2025 also saw Didsbury Sixth Form celebrate our first cohort of students receive their A Level results. An impressive 100% of students passed their A Levels, marking a hugely successful debut year for the Sixth Form. A third of all grades were A or A*, with 93% of students achieving high grades (A*-B). In total, almost two-thirds of all grades awarded were A*-B, and the average grade across all entries was a B. We could not be prouder of our classes of 2025!

Our students have access to state-of-the-art facilities in a brand-new building behind Didsbury Point. Didsbury is a suburban area of Manchester, 4.5 miles south of Manchester City Centre. The location enjoys the advantages of proximity to the open countryside of Cheshire and the Peak District, strong transport links and the cultural and sporting activities of a major city.

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