Job title: Cover Supervisor 
Location: Newcastle
Start date: Immediate start 
Position: Full-time / Part-time 
Salary or salary scale: £90 to £110 per day
Must have qualifications or experience: Enhanced DBS

Introduction

Aquinas Education is looking for a Cover Supervisor to join a Secondary School in Newcastle. The role will start immediately, with guaranteed weekly pay.

About the role

You will be expected to commute to a school in the morning, once you arrive you will receive cover work which you will be asked to give to your assigned classes, and you will be expected to take register, manage the behaviour of the class throughout the day, and ensure all the pupils you are assigned to watch over are safe.

You will be expected to ensure the class runs smoothly and any disruptive behaviour is effectively managed according to the school’s behavioural management policy. You will not be expected to plan any lessons or have prior teaching experience, but prior experience is desirable.

Summary

• Enjoy teaching work which requires no marking and where you don’t need to be qualified to step into the classroom.
• A great way to gain some experience within schools if you are looking to pursue a career in the education sector.
• Flexible working based on your needs.
• Choose to work as little as 1 up to 5 days a week.
• Gain diverse experience in a range of schools for day supply, and broaden your experience.
• Ideal if you need some part-time work or flexibility on which days you work

The ideal candidate will:

• Be willing to register with Aquinas Education and complete all required vetting checks
• Hold Right to Work in the UK
• Hold an enhanced child-barred list DBS certificate registered with the online update service or be willing to process a new application
• Provide two professional child-related references
• No formal qualifications/experience are required for cover supervision work. Please note desirable qualities will be a resilient personality, good time keeping, confidence managing classes/prior experience working with young people

How to apply

If you are interested in becoming a Cover Supervisor in this Newcastle School, please send your cv and a cover letter via email to James Turner at james@aquinaseducation.co.uk.

You can also call James on 01159 244 788 | 07432 696 261

If this role isn’t quite right for you, or you’d be interested in future roles in Newcastle or any of the areas we cover, please feel free to register by clicking the box below.

We’re recruiting too!

We are always looking for great people across the UK, to become Education Recruitment Consultants. Aquinas Education team is a great place to work. We offer some of the best salaries and the most generous bonus structures around. We also proudly train and promote our team, with all of our office managers around the UK being promoted from within. 

About Aquinas Education

Aquinas Education is a unique education recruitment agency with offices across the UK. We specialise in sourcing, supplying and supporting our supply staff on a personal level, making sure that they share the same objectives and ethos we strive to give in our individual approach. Saint Thomas Aquinas is the Patron Saint of Education, which is where our name originated from.

Our ethos is quite simple; we strongly promote ambition within schools and educational environments. We are ambitious for our pupils, schools, teachers and other educational workers in an ethical and modern setting. We want to promote the positive meaning of the phrase

“to be ambitious”.

Not only do we supply the most competent teachers and support staff around, we also give back to the schools by offering a reward scheme, continued support and the chance for positive role models to visit the schools individually. Working within the education sector we believe schools deliver a very high standard of care and teaching. We endeavour to match these aspirations by providing a highly professional service and the best staff available.

Equal opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their commitment to children’s safeguarding. All successful appointments will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a range of other pre-employment recruitment checks.

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