Cover Supervisor

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