Cover Supervisor

Lift Maltings, Witham, Essex, CM8 1EP

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2026

• Closing date

  15 October 2026 at 12:26pm

• Date listed

  1 October 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £22629.41 - £23354.70 per annum

Cover Supervisor job summary

Are you confident, adaptable and able to build positive relationships with young people? We are looking for a Cover Supervisor to join Lift Maltings and help maintain high-quality learning when teachers are absent.

About the role

As a Cover Supervisor, you will provide essential classroom cover during planned and unplanned teacher absence. You will deliver pre-prepared lesson materials across a range of subjects, explain tasks clearly and ensure students remain focused, complete their work and behave appropriately.

You will help create a calm and orderly learning environment, support students who need additional help, including those with SEND, complete attendance registers and provide feedback to teaching and pastoral colleagues. You may also support student supervision during breaks, lunchtimes and other wider academy activities when required.

Key responsibilities

• Supervise lessons in the absence of the class teacher and deliver pre-prepared lesson materials
• Maintain a positive, calm and orderly classroom, applying the academy behaviour policy consistently
• Support students to understand and complete assigned work, including providing appropriate support to students with SEND
• Complete attendance registers, collect completed work and provide clear feedback to the class teacher
• Liaise with teaching, SEND and pastoral colleagues where student support or welfare issues arise
• Support wider academy duties, including student supervision during breaks, lunchtimes and other activities when required

What we're looking for

• GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 or equivalent, together with A levels or an equivalent Level 3 qualification
• Experience of working with children and young people and the confidence to supervise whole classes
• Knowledge of effective behaviour management strategies and the ability to remain calm, patient and resilient
• Clear and effective communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with students and colleagues
• Adaptability and flexibility to work across different subjects, age groups and changing daily priorities
• Strong teamwork, organisation and the ability to plan and prioritise your workload while maintaining confidentiality
• A commitment to safeguarding, equality and inclusion; experience in education, a degree or PGCE, Google Workspace and Arbor knowledge are desirable

About Lift Maltings

Lift Maltings is an 11-16 school based in Witham, Essex. Situated between the cities of Chelmsford and Colchester, the school has 900 students on roll and benefits from a modern, purpose-built site opened in 2011. With excellent transport links to London, our staff and students can take full advantage of the wealth of opportunities the capital provides. Free car parking facilities are available on site.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives - and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

How we support you

We want you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across our network, we invest in you so you can do your best work.

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

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

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 Lift Maltings

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 787 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Lift Maltings website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/maltings-academy

Lift Maltings is a mixed secondary school in Witham, Essex and is part of Lift Schools, a national network of schools created to provide thousands of students with the best possible education.

Our core purpose is to provide our students with a well rounded learning experience that is of the highest standard so that they can stand shoulder to shoulder with others confidently.

It is our aim to instil the ambition in our students that they need to achieve that their aspirations and goals, and for those aspirations to not be limited by any preconceptions they or other may have of them. Our students should leave us at Lift Maltings feeling empowered to do absolutely anything they have their mind set on be that academically or personally.

Who is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. We believe education can transform lives – and we want every child in our schools to achieve their full potential.

Our mission:

We will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to benefit more children and communities.

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