Cover Supervisor

Weaverham High School, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 3HT

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  22 February 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  29 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,989.00 - £28,142.00 Annually (FTE) Actual salary £19,090 - £21,140 for hour 31.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday 8.15am to 3.30pm including unpaid breaks, 39weeks per year.

Cover Supervisor job summary

Cover Supervisor Post

The responsibility of the Cover Supervisor is to administer work which has been set for the class. This work will be set either by the normal class teacher or by the Head of Subject, if the teacher is absent. The post will not involve the planning or marking of pupil work, other than when this is part of the classroom activity, eg pupils marking each other’s work. Marking and assessment will be carried out by the normal class teacher. The role will involve the active presence of the Cover Supervisor in the class and the constant interaction with pupils to ensure that work is being understood and completed to the high standard expected at Weaverham High School. Cover Supervisors will be expected to facilitate the highest standards of behaviour, learning and pupil progress in the lesson.

The Cover Supervisor will be familiar with the routines of the school and will become well known to pupils. Through establishing relationships they will be able to develop their own classroom management skills and make use of the behaviour strategies that are prevalent throughout the school. Our Behaviour for Learning Policy will be used by the Cover Supervisor to maintain high quality learning in the lesson. In this they will be supported by other colleagues, the Head of Department and members of the Senior Leadership Team as would befit any usual teacher.

The hours of employment for Cover Supervisors are 8.15am-3.30pm. Cover Supervisors will be expected to be in school by 8.15am to enable them to identify which classes they are covering and collect the appropriate work. At the end of the day, 3.00-3.30pm, they will support pupils attending Power Hour, in the completion of home-learning. In the event that the Cover Supervisor is not required for covering lessons, s/he will act as a Learning Support Assistant in lessons, deployed by the SEND Coordinator at the beginning of the day.

The Cover Manager is responsible for assigning the Cover Supervisor to specific classes. The Cover Manager is directly line-managed and appraised by the Data Manager who is responsible for over-seeing the smooth deployment and logistics of covering lessons in the absence of the classroom teacher. Cover Supervisors will be line-managed and appraised by the Raising Standards Team as part of ensuring high quality learning in the classroom, even in the absence of the usual classroom teacher. Cover Supervisors will also attend whole Staff Briefing each week and they will be supported through the whole school CPD to ensure that they feel confident in ensuring that high quality learning occurs in all lessons.

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.

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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 Weaverham High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1160 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Weaverham High School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/weaverham-high-school-northwich

Our vision is clear, we want Weaverham High School to be a vibrant, thriving and successful school where every member of our community feels valued, safe and supported to ensure they surpass their potential. We celebrate uniqueness and see individuals. We understand that our pupils have hopes and dreams, challenges and barriers and it is our privilege to celebrate their worth and their potential. We want every child to enjoy their own journey of discovery, acquire a thirst for knowledge, creativity and imagination and develop a love for their learning. We want pupils to leave our school not just with qualifications showing their academic success, but also with the capacity to think clearly and deeply, a desire to act with integrity and to show kindness and empathy to others, and with the character and leadership experience they need to thrive in the world. We will work tirelessly to ensure individual barriers are overcome so pupils are challenged and supported in equal measure. Our desire is to nurture talent, ability and ambition with energy, creativity, determination, relentless kindness and high expectations. When we combine such a desire with our ethos of Safe.Ready.Respect you will thrive in our care. 

We have a clear and ambitious vision for school improvement that is woven into the 6 strands that define the Weaverham offer. This offer is underpinned by an’ Ethic Of Excellence’ 5, where the following principles guide our strategy to ensure we are the best we can be:

Study examples of excellence
Build a culture of critique (be kind, be specific, be helpful/listen, reflect, review)
Require multiple revisions
Provide opportunities for public presentation

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