Cover Supervisor in Skelmersdale

Location: Skelmersdale
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Teaching Personnel
Job Hours: Full-time

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General Cover Supervisor

Teaching Personnel are seeking to appoint pro-active individuals who are keen to pursue a career in education for the role of a Cover Supervisor across Skelmersdale, Lancashire.

Flexible contracts and start dates available.

This role is ideal for recent Graduates who are looking to embark on Initial Teacher Training.

This role will provide you with first hand exposure to working in a school setting.

If this is of interest to you, please include this in your supporting statement so that a consultant at Teaching Personnel can discuss our Future Teachers Programme with you!

Your main role will be to provide full support to both staff and students in school, and the successful candidates will ensure the good behaviour of students and ensure they are engaging in their learning during short-term absence of teachers.

Cover work will be supplied wherever possible for you to use as a basis for the lessons and we will also determine your subject specialisms with you as a preference.

Excellent inter-personal skills are required for this post as our successful candidates need to demonstrate that they can build good rapport with staff and students alike.

Previous experience within an educational environment is desirable, however not essential as full training will be provided.

Principal Accountabilities:

-          Supervise students engaged in learning activities to ensure that the learning objectives set by the teacher are achieved also ensuring inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom in order to promote equal opportunities.

-          Ensure the objectives are achieved by the students within a safe and secure environment.

-          Give clear instructions for the lesson provided by the teacher ensuring that learning outcomes are achieved.

-          Participate in training and other learning activities as required and attend relevant meetings to ensure your own continuing professional development

What next?

If you are interested in becoming a Cover Supervisor this academic year to support Secondary schools across Skelmersdale, we would love to hear from you.

Please click the link below to apply with your up-to-date CV attached and a member of the Lancashire Secondary Branch will be in touch to discuss your application.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role.

Please see the FAQ’s on the Teaching Personnel website for details.


All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.

07% statutory holiday pay.

This advert is for a temporary position.

In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.


Teaching Personnel is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.


We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training.

All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Full assistance provided.


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About Teaching Personnel


Teaching Personnel is the UK’s leading education recruitment agency. Since 1996 we have registered hundreds of thousands of teachers and classroom support staff who have chosen us to help them find work in UK classrooms. Our mission statement 'Making a Difference Every Day through Staffing, Tutoring and Supply' captures the essence of what we do, the services we provide and what is really important about the work undertaken by our branches.

We commit to 'quality' always aiming to provide the best services, the best candidates and the best value. We strive to always be the 'leading' agency in the market, making sure we have sufficient branch staff, locations and candidates to meet all of the staffing needs at our client schools. We are committed to being 'expert' at what we do by training our staff to understand the schools market and the importance of fulfilling the special and often unique requirements of each individual school. We want to be recognised as... Quality - Leading - Experts

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Could Teaching Personnel be your place to thrive? Working as a Recruitment Consultant at Teaching Personnel is a challenging but thoroughly enjoyable and rewarding experience. To find out what it's like working for Teaching Personnel, visit our careers site https://www.linkedin.com/company/teaching-personnel/life/work-for-us-education-recruitment/?viewAsMember=true

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