School Cover Supervisor

Your experience outside education may be exactly what a school needs.

Local Education is recruiting confident, reliable people for Cover Supervisor roles across secondary schools in South Essex from September. These opportunities are particularly suitable for career changers who have developed strong communication, leadership and people-management skills but have not previously worked as a teacher.

Successful Cover Supervisors come from many backgrounds. We regularly speak with managers, sports coaches, youth workers, support workers, customer service professionals, performers, graduates, former emergency services personnel and people returning to work.

The common qualities are calm authority, good judgement, resilience and the ability to build respectful relationships with young people.

What is a Cover Supervisor?

When a teacher is absent, a Cover Supervisor takes responsibility for the class and ensures pupils complete...