Cover Teacher

Newquay Tretherras, Newquay, Cornwall, TR7 3BH

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  On completion of pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  28 April 2026 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  16 April 2026

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Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
  • Suitable for early career teachers
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: UNQ3 1FTE
• Additional allowances:

  UNQ3 1FTE

Cover Teacher job summary

Purpose of the Role

The postholder will implement and deliver a broad, balanced, personalised, and appropriately differentiated curriculum for students. They will provide cover teaching as required to support staff absence and ensure continuity of learning.

The postholder will facilitate and encourage learning experiences that enable students to achieve their individual potential and will contribute to raising standards of attainment. They will support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for both academic and personal development.

They will monitor and assess student progress in their role as a teacher and will contribute to the overall development of students in their role as a Form Tutor.

We would welcome applications from newly qualified teachers or experienced teachers. We provide an extensive and highly supportive programme for our Early Career Teachers (ECTs) and a diverse range of professional improvement opportunities for more experienced staff. If you have excellent subject knowledge, are passionate about Mathematics and enthusiastic about working with fantastic young people, we would love to hear from you.

For more information, please contact Justine Kellow, Assistant Headteacher at jkellow@nt.celtrust.org

Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check.

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

Cornwall Education Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment checks and references including an enhanced DBS 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 Newquay Tretherras

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1653 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Newquay Tretherras website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/newquay-tretherras

Newquay Tretherras is one of the largest schools in Cornwall, with over 1700 young people, including a thriving Sixth Form, set on the beautiful north coast. We are a popular and over-subscribed school at the heart of our community. We are known for being an inclusive school with a caring family ethos. Our judicious curriculum is ambitious and aspirational for all of our children as we believe that a great set of exam results, whatever a child’s starting points, opens doors to exciting futures. Our staff set high standards and we aim to ensure that all our children are inspired in school to become the best that they can be, realise their full potential and achieve remarkable things.

Tretherras students are a pleasure to teach and learn with: they know that their education is important for their life chances and they take full advantage of the incredible range of clubs, experiences and facilities offers to them at Tretherras, both within and beyond the classroom.

We have a large team of specialist staff who are fully committed to our students and to each other. We offer excellent pastoral and professional support for all our staff and our dedicated Learning Team ensures high quality training and career development opportunities for all, whatever the stage of your career. Whether you are a newly qualified or experienced teacher, you will find Tretherras to be a school that will invest in you personally. We offer an extensive and highly supportive programme for teachers in the early stages of their career and there are lots of opportunities to become involved in the wider life of the school. As a member of CELT, we also provide an extensive CPD programme and opportunities to share school improvement expertise with colleagues from across the four secondary schools in the Trust.

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