Cover Supervisor

Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX

27 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  asap

• Closing date

  9 November 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  13 October 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £30,334.00 - £32,906.00 Annually (FTE) AS 15-20 FTE £30,334-£32,906 pro rata £25,256-£27,398

Cover Supervisor job summary

Cover Supervisor

Houstone School has an excellent opportunity for a candidate to join them as a Cover Supervisor. The purpose of the Cover Supervisor role is to provide teaching cover during short-term or planned teacher absences to implement lessons to students. This is a very critical role for our school, and you will make a valuable contribution to our students and curriculum teams. Under the direction of the class teacher, you will enhance learning opportunities for pupils and ensure there is minimal disruption to their education.

This is an ideal role for any candidates wishing to pursue a career in teaching. Join us as a Cover Supervisor to kick-start your career in education and gain useful and relevant long-lasting skills in delivering classes and managing students.

If you want to grow and develop in a fast paced, dynamic and successful School, come and join us at Houstone School!

Key Duties

Support the teaching and learning of individual or groups of students, using support strategies appropriate to their learning needs.

Contribute significantly to; the planning of teaching and learning work programmes and activities to achieve the aims of lessons.

Contribute to the monitoring, recording and assessment of student progress through observation and questioning, against student targets

Contribute to the development of a purposeful working atmosphere, implement and monitor the school’s behaviour and any related policies and procedures.

Invigilate tests and examinations as directed.

Successful candidate will have

Some experience of working in an educational setting.

A degree-educated candidate

Able to plan and organise workloads to meet conflicting work demands and deadlines.

Able to contribute constructively to and work effectively as a member of a team.

Able to use own initiative in working with parents/carers and the child’s community within an agreed framework of policies and procedures.

Able to communicate effectively at a range of levels, e.g. with children, parents, other professionals, Supply Agencies.

Able to keep accurate records and use these to inform judgements.

Job Specifics

Start date asap

Salary AS 15-20

Job Role Permanent, Full time, Term-Time, +5 INSET days, 39 wks, 35 ½ hrs per week, Mon-Fri 8:25am-4:00pm

The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.

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

Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.

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 Houstone School

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 765 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Houstone School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/houstone-school

Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.

There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.

Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.

Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.

We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.

Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.

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