Cover Supervisor - SEND - SEMH


Company:	Teaching Vacancies
Salary:	Not specified
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Corby, NN18 0TH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Sept 2026
Closing date:	7 Oct 2026

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

Minimum knowledge/training/experience required for the effective performance of the job:

• Good level of education at least to GCSE 9-4 (A-C) level and appropriate for school setting so as to be able to relate to curriculum studies at an appropriate level to monitor and supervise curriculum studies.

• Demonstrable ability to interact with/deal with students. This may include work or life experience in dealing with children/young people from previous jobs or roles in a work-related environment.

• Good understanding and good empathy with school age children and the range of behaviours (sometimes challenging) often exhibited by them (people managing skills).

• Able to interpret work plans, organise the presentation of work at short notice and draw on experience to adapt situations to different circumstances.

• Good organisational skills and able to work flexibly.

• Good team worker and able to use own initiative.

• Basic IT skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, emailing.

What the school offers its staff

We are a high-performing, SEMH special school which was judged as Outstanding in every area by Ofsted in June 2023. We are not remotely complacent about this and are committed to ensuring that the quality of provision we offer to our students is consistently excellent. We believe that such sustained success is a team effort and every member of staff contributes to that level of excellence. We are a relatively small school, but we still have a distinctly ‘family’ atmosphere. Visitors to the School often comment on the friendly and supportive ethos.

Further details about the role

The purpose of this role is to provide cover supervision for classes or small groups in the absence of the regular teacher. The successful candidate will be organised and motivated to provide a high-quality experience for the children.

Cover Supervisors are expected to be able to ensure the delivery of pre-planned work for all areas of school curriculum. They set the students tasks/pre-prepared work, which should be provided for them from the absent teacher or from an appropriate member of the teaching staff. They return the work carried out and report back to that teacher on progress made during the sessions they cover. Feedback will include issues about behaviour, positive and negative, and any other concerns or information the jobholder has need to pass on to a relevant member of teaching, pastoral or administrative staff (this could be information on student absence or illness etc.) Since cover may be required to cover emergency situations preparation time is often limited for the job holder.

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.

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