ILS

Southend High School for Girls, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4UZ

16 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  28 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 January 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £14.13 - £14.13 Hourly + 12.07% Holiday Pay

ILS job summary

Independent Learning Supervisor

Closing date: Wednesday 28th January 2026

Zero hours contract - Salary Scale 5 point 9 (£14.13 per hour + holiday pay)

Interviews to be held w/b 23rd February 2026

We are seeking dependable individuals to join our existing team of Independent Learning Supervisors.

You would be required to supervise students across all year groups in the teacher’s absence.

A good level of education and a confident manner is essential.

Previous experience of working with young people and the ability to use Microsoft Office would be a distinct advantage.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Supervise students in the absence of their usual subject teacher.

• Have flexibility to provide cover at short notice.

• Provide clear direction to students and be effective in classroom management.

• Use Microsoft Office, including excel, word, PowerPoint and teams.

• Take class registration on SIMS.

• Have excellent communication skills and liaise with both staff and students in a friendly manner.

• Work well as part of a team and able to take direction.

• Undertake all required training and follow school procedures.

We can offer you:

• A strong, highly qualified team of staff with an ethos of tolerance and a family community spirit.

• Training and development and our commitment to staff wellbeing.

• An environment which promotes innovation.

Southend High School for Girls is a highly successful and oversubscribed girls’ grammar school rated

‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

This is an exciting time to join the school as it continues to move forward under the leadership of its Headteacher, Mr Jason Carey.

For all enquiries please contact recruitment@shsg.org

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English.

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

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete 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 Southend High School for Girls

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1253 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Southend High School for Girls website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/southend-high-school-for-girls

Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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