Cover Supervisor

Oasis Academy Lord's Hill, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 8FA

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 October 2025

• Closing date

  13 October 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  1 October 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: SCP 7-11 £26,403-£28,142 FTE : £21,483-£22,897 TTO

Cover Supervisor job summary

Are you looking to work in an environment where you are truly valued.  Do you love working with young people and helping them to love learning?  We currently have a new opportunity for a dynamic and flexible Cover Supervisor to support our staff and students by delivering lessons and supervision to provide short term cover for teacher absence.

Job overview

You’ll be an expert in deploying classroom management skills, enabling students to achieve their lesson objectives whilst offering appropriate support where needed and helping to assist the wider faculty when teaching staff are otherwise engaged.

The right candidate will have:

• Experience of working with students in an educational or service environment
• Minimum of 3 GCSEs at grade C or above (including Maths and English)
• Solid communication skills and the ability to successfully manage classroom behaviour and focus
• Ability to prioritise and plan workload, delivering set lesson content effectively and efficiently and identifying opportunities for further support where appropriate.
• Enthusiasm and hard working
• Resilience and determination and welcome the challenge helping students to learn and suceed.

Why Oasis Academy Lord's Hill?

You’ll make a key difference in student’s progression with the ability to experience a leading role in the classroom, working as part of a wider team, with access to further developmental opportunities available.

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 Oasis Academy Lord's Hill

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 762 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oasis Academy Lord's Hill website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-academy-lord-s-hill

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