Cover Supervisor

Position: Cover Supervisor (Permanent)
Cover Supervisors – Tameside (Ashton & Stalybridge)

Teaching Personnel – Immediate & Ongoing Opportunities

Teaching Personnel are currently seeking exceptional Cover Supervisors to support a number of partner secondary schools across Ashton, Stalybridge, and the wider Tameside area. These schools require confident, assertive, and highly resilient individuals with strong behaviour management skills who can maintain a purposeful learning environment.

About the Role

As a Cover Supervisor with Teaching Personnel, you will manage classrooms in the absence of the class teacher, delivering pre‑planned lessons across KS3 and KS4. A calm, authoritative presence is essential, as you will be responsible for keeping pupils on task and managing behaviour in line with each school’s policies.

Key Responsibilities

Delivering pre‑set work to classes across a range of subjects
Leading the classroom, ensuring routines are followed
Managing challenging behaviour effectively and confidently
Building quick rapport with students
Ensuring safeguarding and school policies are always upheld
Providing feedback to teaching staff after each lesson

We’re Looking For

Exceptional behaviour management — able to defuse, redirect, and maintain control
Experience working with KS3 & KS4 students
Previous Cover Supervisor experience desirable but not essential
SEN experience or willingness to support diverse learning needs
Reliable, resilient, and able to adapt quickly to new environments
Willing to travel throughout Tameside (Ashton, Stalybridge, Denton, Hyde, Dukinfield etc.)

Why Join Teaching Personnel?

Access to regular work across supportive Tameside schools
A dedicated consultant offering ongoing support
Opportunities for CPD, including behaviour management and SEN training
Competitive daily rates, paid weekly
Potential long‑term and temp‑to‑perm placements

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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