Cover Supervisor

Bridgnorth Endowed School, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 4ER

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 November 2026

• Closing date

  25 September 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  8 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £8,547.47 - £9,272.02 Annually (Actual) Grade 7, Point 12–17 (£28,598–£31,022 full time equivalent)

Cover Supervisor job summary

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join our supportive school community. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about working with young people and making a positive difference to their learning and development.

As a Cover Supervisor, you will play a key role in ensuring continuity of learning during the short-term absence of teaching staff by supervising classes and delivering pre-prepared lesson activities. Working closely with teachers and school leaders, you will help create a positive, inclusive and engaging learning environment where all pupils can thrive.

When not covering lessons, you will support wider school activities, including helping to maintain and supervise the school library, assisting with pastoral care, supporting pupils with additional needs, and contributing to the day-to-day life of the school. You will act as a positive role model, encouraging high standards of behaviour, engagement and achievement.

This role would suit an individual with excellent communication and organisational skills, who enjoys working with children and can build positive relationships with pupils, staff and families. Previous experience in an educational setting is desirable, although not essential, as training and ongoing professional development will be provided.

If you are committed to supporting pupils' academic, social and emotional wellbeing and would like to be part of a caring and ambitious school, we would love to hear from you.

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

Bridgnorth Endowed School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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 Bridgnorth Endowed School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 601 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Bridgnorth Endowed School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bridgnorth-endowed-school-bridgnorth

Here, at Bridgnorth Endowed, we place great value on our students' pastoral and academic development, and we aim to create a genuine and positive atmosphere that can be felt and that resonates throughout each day, and in every part of the school.

We aim to ensure that every young person achieves their personal best by providing an education that challenges them intellectually and offers them a wide range of opportunities to develop and stretch their unique talents and interests.

We are incredibly proud of our school and our community. We have dedicated and happy students and staff, both of whom work together to achieve excellent results. Bridgnorth Endowed students thrive during their time here and visitors frequently comment on students’ outstanding manners and behaviour.

We expect and give the very best education to every child as it is our mission to challenge and support our young people to achieve their potential. We believe that the academy’s values of trust, enthusiasm, fairness, and hard work ensure that every student develops into a confident, successful and happy young adult, ready to face the future.

We are a small school and students in each year have an academic education that is student-centred and tailored to their individual needs. We have high expectations of positive learning behaviours of all our students and expect all to uphold the school standards. We have a dedicated team of teachers and support staff who will work tirelessly to provide pupils with the support they will need to be successful in their education.

If you share our values and aims and are interested in learning more about Bridgnorth Endowed School, then I invite you to pay us a visit, meet some of our inspirational staff and pupils, and spend some time with us in school.

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