Cover Supervisor

Dean Trust Wigan, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN5 0DQ

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  8 October 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  24 September 2025

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: 19,917 - 21,933

Cover Supervisor job summary

The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic Cover Supervisor to join our dedicated team at Dean Trust Wigan.

The core purpose of the role will be to lead and supervise lessons to classes in different subject areas during any absence of teachers. The post holder will deliver lessons as provided by the absent teacher and the primary focus of the role will be to ensure effective progress of pupil learning is maintained during the absence whilst establishing an atmosphere in the classroom conductive to effective leanring.

Key responsibilities:

• To ensure the School's Teaching and Learning protocols are followed in all cover lessons and pupils settle quickly to their learning activities.
• To ensure students follow activities and lesson plans that have been set by absent teaching staff and when required to set appropriate work for pupils at their current stage of learning.
• To manage the behaviour of students whilst they undertake the work that has been set and report any behaviour issues using the school's procedures.
• To quickly establish effective working relationships with all groups of pupils taught.
• To support and guide pupils in lessons with their progress in tasks set.

 

For more information about the role please contact us on 01942 511987 or email dtwoffice@deantrustwigan.co.uk.

Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

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 Dean Trust Wigan

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 770 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Dean Trust Wigan website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/dean-trust-wigan

Dean Trust Wigan is part of The Dean Trust, which has a number of very high performing schools and a proven track record of sustained improvement. The Dean Trust’s core values include traditional academic education, excellent discipline and respect, resulting in improved attainment and progress. “Believe, Achieve, Succeed” has been embraced by all of the schools in The Dean Trust.

Ofsted October 2023- 'Pupils and staff at the school are right to identify the Dean Trust Wigan as an improving school...The school has high expectations for pupils’ academic achievement. Pupils understand how they should behave. Most pupils meet the school’s raised expectations for behaviour. In lessons, most pupils embody the school’s values of ‘be ready, be respectful, be responsible’ through their improved attitudes to learning'.

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