Cover Supervisor

Chase High School, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RT

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  Immediate Start

• Closing date

  8 October 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  18 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: £26,824.00 - £28,598.00 Annually (FTE) £21,406.6 to £ 22,822 per annum, actual LGPS Southend Scale 5, range points 8-12

Cover Supervisor job summary

Cover Supervisor

Location: Chase High School

Contract Type :Permanent

Working Weeks : 38.4 working weeks per year/ 44 paid weeks. Term time plus 2 inset days.

Hours : 35 hours per week 8.00am to 3.30pm. Minus 30 mins unpaid lunch break each day

Start date : Immediate start

Salary : £21,412.6 to £ 22,828 per annum, actual

LGPS Southend Scale 5, range points 8-12 (£26,824 to £28,598 FTE)

Chase High School is seeking an enthusiastic, reliable and confident Cover Supervisor to join our team.

As a Cover Supervisor, you will supervise whole classes during the short-term absence of teachers, ensuring pupils remain focused, engaged and ready to learn. You will work from lesson instructions and resources provided by teachers, maintaining high standards of behaviour and acting as a positive role model for our pupils.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise classes and ensure pupils remain on task and engaged in their learning.
• Deliver clear instructions and support pupils with general queries about their work.
• Maintain a calm, purposeful and positive learning environment.
• Promote high expectations of behaviour, conduct and attitudes to learning.
• Deal promptly and appropriately with behaviour issues in line with school policies.
• Provide accurate and objective feedback to teachers on lessons and pupil conduct.
• Support pupils with their learning, promoting inclusion and equality.
• Make effective use of ICT, equipment and learning resources where appropriate.
• Follow school policies and procedures, particularly those relating to safeguarding, child protection, health and safety, confidentiality and data protection.
• Participate in relevant training, meetings and professional development as required.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience of working with children or young people
• Has high expectations of pupil behaviour, achievement and personal development.
• Can build positive, respectful and trusting relationships with pupils and adults.
• Communicates clearly, confidently and effectively.
• Is calm and professional under pressure.
• Is organised, flexible and able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
• Can follow instructions accurately while using initiative to resolve problems.
• Has good literacy, numeracy and ICT skills.
• Understands the importance of safeguarding, equality, inclusion and pupil wellbeing.

Chase High School is a mixed, mainstream secondary school located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. It educates more than 1,300 pupils aged 11-18 from over 40 countries.

Chase High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service as well as other checks aligned with the Safer Recruitment process.

Chase High School is an academy that forms part of the Discovery Educational Trust.

Trust benefits:

Focus on continuing professional development, Pension Scheme, Bike2Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme via MediCash, Access to staff discounts and Mental First Aiders

Closing date: Midday 08 October 2026

Interviews date: w/c 01 November 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early upon appointment of a successful applicant.

For further information on this advert, please contact Recruitment@discoveryeducationaltrust.co.uk

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Chase High School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1293 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Chase High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/chase-high-school-westcliff-on-sea

An 11-18 Academy which strives to ensure all children are helped to aspire, receive outstanding care, and aim for excellence in all they do.

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