Higher Level Teaching Assistant/Cover Supervisor

Adelaide School, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3DT

11 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  3 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  23 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full time equivalent salary: £30,024.00 - £33,699.00 Annually (FTE) Staffordshire Grade 7, SCP 15-22 (£26,072-£29,263 Actual) Term Time plus inset days

Higher Level Teaching Assistant/Cover Supervisor job summary

What does the role involve?

As a HLTA/Cover Supervisor at Adelaide School, you will support teaching and learning by supervising classes, delivering classroom learning and ensuring students remain engaged and on task. The role includes working with pupils who have social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs, promoting positive behaviour, supporting individual and small-group learning, and helping students achieve their academic and personal development goals. You will also work closely with teaching staff to provide a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment. The ideal candidate must be able to build positive relationships and manage pupils’ behaviour effectively within a classroom environment and have an ability to be proactive and resourceful.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supervising classes and delivering classroom learning.
• Supporting students with SEMH and additional learning needs.
• Encouraging positive behaviour and engagement.
• Assisting with learning activities and interventions.
• Monitoring student progress and wellbeing.
• Contributing to a safe, nurturing, and inclusive school environment.

What we can offer you:

• Excellent working environment
• Support for your role with a dedicated school and central team.
• Continued professional development opportunities.
• Pay progression and recognition of continuous service.
• Generous local government pension scheme.

Access to comprehensive and flexible Employee Benefits which include

• Tech Schemes
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Online gym classes
• Health and wellbeing support and advice e.g., Men's Health, Wellbeing Action Plans, Better Sleep, Relaxation and Meditation, Understanding Menopause
• Financial advice services
• Think Well, fast track counselling service
• Physiotherapy
• Onsite catering.

Please find attached a Job Description and Person specification for this role.

Also please find attached relevant School/Trust Policies on Safer Recruitment and Safeguarding.

Manor Hall Academy Trust places the highest priority on the safeguarding children. Any appointments within the Trust will be subject to a enhanced disclosure being obtained from the Disclosure and Barring Service, Online Checks and satisfactory references prior to interview. Further details about DBS can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service/about .

By engaging in this recruitment process, shortlisted candidates consent to a online search in line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education Statutory Guidance 2025.

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 Adelaide School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 9 to 18
• Size: 88 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 9 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Adelaide School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/adelaide-school

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