Lesson Manager (Cover Supervisor)

Parkside Community School, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S40 2NS

39 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September /October 2025

• Closing date

  3 September 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  24 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Cover Supervisor
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,546.00 - £21,910.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 8, Pt 12-15

Lesson Manager (Cover Supervisor) job summary

We are seeking to appoint a Lesson Manager to support students and staff at Parkside Community School.

Core Tasks and Responsibilities

• Support students’ learning in a range of settings, including working with individual students, groups or whole classes. In the absence of a teacher and support staff, provide supervision of, and be solely responsible for, a class of students during lesson time.
• Communicate the work set by the class teacher to the students and ensure that students are aware of the teacher’s/support staff’s expectations during the course of the lesson with regard to task completion.
• Liaise with colleagues regarding the work set for a class, in accordance with curriculum documentation.

• In the case when no set work is available from a teacher, organise and prepare work for the lesson and on occasions plan and teach lessons from schemes of work. This is in an emergency situation only.

• Establish productive working relationships, including with students, providing support acting as a role model and setting high expectations.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

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 Parkside Community School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 572 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Parkside Community School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/parkside-community-school-chesterfield

Parkside Community School is a small sized 11-16 secondary located in Chesterfield. In April 2023 it joined Embark Federation.

Parkside is a truly special school and has a fantastic student body. It benefits from a talented and committed, long serving staff and governance with minimal turnover. All at Parkside are passionate about positively serving to change life chances for our children; this is our common purpose.

Exceptional teaching and learning is our priority. Our highly qualified and motivated staff work hard to ensure our students achieve at the highest level, whatever their starting point. The intent of the Parkside Curriculum is to be leading edge, facilitating the best academic and personal development outcomes for our students. Our pastoral teams are driven to provide all necessary support to ensure our students can learn, participate, and feel they belong to the Parkside family.

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