Cover Supervisor

Lincoln Carlton Academy, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4AG

22 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  25 June 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,706.00 - £26,840.00 Annually (Actual) LCC Grade 7 Points 18 to 21

Cover Supervisor job summary

Our school is proud to be part of Anthem, a multi-academy trust that creates ambitious and successful schools where every child thrives.

Lincoln Carlton Academy is a highly regarded and consistently oversubscribed primary school, balancing high expectations with a joyful and nurturing approach to education. Lincoln Carlton Academy offers a rich curriculum shaped by curiosity, creativity and character development, supported by strong relationships with families and the wider community, a well-established behaviour culture and a commitment to ensuring every child can flourish and succeed.

We are seeking a reliable and confident individual to provide short-term classroom cover in the absence of teaching staff. The successful candidate will supervise whole classes or groups of students, ensuring that learning continues in a calm and purposeful environment.

This role involves taking responsibility for a class, delivering pre-set work provided by teachers, maintaining good behaviour, and supporting students to remain engaged in their learning. While working independently, support from qualified teachers will always be available where needed.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise students undertaking work set by teaching staff, in line with school policies
• Maintain a positive and well-managed classroom environment, ensuring pupils remain on task
• Deliver clear instructions for learning activities and respond to student queries where appropriate
• Manage student behaviour effectively, using agreed school strategies and procedures
• Deal with any immediate issues or emergencies in accordance with school policies
• Collect and return completed work to the relevant teachers
• Provide feedback on student engagement, behaviour, and any concerns following lessons
• Support the safe use of classroom equipment and resources
• Attend relevant meetings as required

Benefits

As part of Anthem Schools Trust, staff benefit from a supportive working environment and access to a range of employee benefits, including health and wellbeing support, professional development opportunities and financial benefits.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff, visitors and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, suitable references and other essential checks. Staff involved in recruitment and selection are trained in safer recruitment, and all staff and volunteers undertake child protection training.

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 successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.
It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’.
Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

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 Lincoln Carlton Academy

• School type: Academies, None, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• School size: 417 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lincoln Carlton Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lincoln-carlton-academy

Lincoln Carlton Academy is a vibrant, nurturing and inclusive primary academy, located in uphill Lincoln.

Lincoln Carlton Academy is proud to be part of the Anthem Schools Trust. Anthem is an education charity that runs a group of state-funded primary and secondary schools to give children a better future.

Our schools work in collaboration as one entity to improve and maintain high educational standards, experiences and outcomes across the Trust. Our single legal and moral purpose is to advance education for public benefit.

Anthem serves over 8,000 children and young people across the East Midlands, London and Thames Valley. Our vision is that by working together, we will create ambitious and successful schools in which every child thrives.

Anthem schools are diverse and serve many different communities. They are all united by a shared ambition for children and young people, which is underpinned by a commitment to integrity, collaboration and excellence.

These values are brought to life through our schools’ own identities and approaches, creating thriving local schools that meet their communities’ needs. We believe in the benefits of working with others. We actively encourage our schools to collaborate across the Trust and beyond, so that we all continually learn and improve.

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