Cover Supervisor

Lift Maltings

Spinks Lane, Witham, Essex, CM8 1EP
United Kingdom

£21,906.70 - £22,608.86 + well-being cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits

Permanent, Full Time

37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year

September 2026 Start

Are you passionate about supporting young people and inspiring them to achieve their best?

Lift Maltings is seeking a confident, enthusiastic and motivated Cover Supervisor to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in maintaining high-quality learning by supervising lessons during teacher absence and helping create a calm, positive and purposeful learning environment.

Whether you're an experienced Cover Supervisor, Teaching Assistant looking to take the next step, or an aspiring teacher seeking valuable classroom experience, this role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive and ambitious school.

Working across a range of subjects, you'll quickly build positive relationships with students, ensuring they remain engaged with their learning while maintaining the high expectations and standards that underpin success at Lift Maltings.

In this role, you will:

Deliver pre-planned lessons across a range of subjects during teacher absence.
Supervise classes, ensuring students remain on task, complete their work and meet the school's high expectations for behaviour and conduct.
Support students to access learning, including those with SEND, adapting your approach where appropriate.
Create a calm, positive and inclusive classroom environment where all students can succeed.
Provide feedback to teaching staff on student engagement, behaviour and lesson outcomes.
Complete attendance registers and maintain accurate records.
Work collaboratively with teaching, pastoral and SEND teams to support student wellbeing and achievement.
Undertake wider academy duties, including break and lunchtime supervision where required.

About Lift Maltings

Lift Maltings is an 11-16 school based in Witham, Essex. Situated between the cities of Chelmsford and Colchester, the school has 900 students on roll and benefits from a modern, purpose-built site opened in 2011. With excellent transport links to London, our staff and students can take full advantage of the wealth of opportunities the capital provides. Free car parking facilities are available on site.

Visits to the school are warmly encouraged. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Luke Harper, School Operations Manager, at lharper@liftmaltings.org.

Closing date: 2nd August 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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