14 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    26 September 2025 at 3pm

  • Date listed

    12 September 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Learning support or cover supervisor

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£22,977

What skills and experience we're looking for

Purpose of Job:

The main responsibility of the Teaching and Learning Supervisor is to supervise classes during the shortterm absence of the assigned teacher. The role involves managing the classroom environment and ensuring that students continue to learn and work in a disciplined and constructive manner.

Specific Responsibilities:

Deliver pre-prepared lessons or activities to students, ensuring that teaching and learning continue in the absence of the regular teacher.

Maintain a safe and orderly environment, ensuring students adhere to the school's behaviour policy.

Assist students with the tasks set by the teacher and ensure they understand the objectives.

Liaise with teachers to provide feedback on student progress and any issues encountered during the cover period

Complete any necessary administrative tasks related to the class or the cover role.

Ensure the safety and well-being of all students in line with the school's safeguarding policy.

Respond appropriately to questions raised by pupils.

Deal with immediate problems and emergencies in accordance with the Academy’s policies.

Collect any completed work and return it to the appropriate teacher.

Report back on behaviour of pupils during the class and any issues arising.

To support students in lessons as directed by the SENCo when needed.

To keep up to date with safeguarding requirements and policies.

What the school offers its staff

  • High quality internal CPD to all staff members which largely reflects the priorities of the School Development Plan.
  • Gymnasium which staff can use free of charge

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

Shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search to help identify information that is publicly available online which the Academy might want to explore with the candidate at interview. Further, we are fully committed to safeguarding and the successful candidate will be expected to undertake the appropriate pre-employment checks, including an Enhanced DBS and Barred List check.

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About The Eastwood Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1143 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
Ofsted report
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EPAT is a cross-phase ‘Starter Trust’, providing high quality educational provision, standards and outcomes in local schools. It was formed on 1st February 2017, through a collaborative partnership between The Eastwood Academy (a secondary converter academy) and Bournemouth Park Primary School (a maintained primary school).

The Eastwood Academy's ethos - ‘Believe, Succeed, Together’- is an uncompromising belief that all pupils can and will succeed in a learning environment which supports and values everyone and their achievements.

Locally, the Eastwood Academy is the highest performing non-selective school and regularly outperforms the selective schools. Nationally, in terms of pupil progress, the Academy has been in the top 10% of schools over the last 3 years.

The Eastwood Academy was subject to a section 5 Ofsted inspection in December 2018 and achieved an ‘outstanding’ judgement in all categories.

Bournemouth Park Academy is a rapidly improving non-selective primary school in Southend. In 2016, it was rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted and was ranked in the top 100 most improved primary schools in the country.

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