Supply Teacher | Cover Work | Basingstoke
Open to Qualified Teachers, Cover Supervisors and Graduates | Flexible Day-to-Day and Long-Term Opportunities
Work in Education With Greater Flexibility
Do you enjoy working with young people but want more control over your working week?
Perhaps you are a qualified teacher looking for fewer planning, marking and administrative responsibilities. You may already have experience as a Cover Supervisor, or you could be a recent graduate looking to gain valuable classroom experience before beginning teacher training.
Teaching Personnel is recruiting confident and reliable educators to provide secondary school cover across Basingstoke and the surrounding area.
Opportunities include flexible day-to-day supply, pre-booked cover and longer-term placements. Whether you want occasional work alongside other commitments or a consistent Monday-to-Friday role, we can help you find assignments that suit your experience and availability.
The Role
You will supervise secondary classes during teacher absences and ensure students remain focused on work that has already been prepared.
Your responsibilities may include:
- Supervising lessons across Key Stages 3 and 4
- Communicating lesson instructions and expectations clearly
- Managing behaviour in line with school policies
- Maintaining a calm, inclusive and productive classroom
- Encouraging students to engage with and complete their work
- Supporting students with additional learning needs
- Following school safeguarding and behaviour procedures
- Providing feedback to teaching staff after lessons
For most day-to-day cover assignments, you will not be expected to plan lessons or mark work.
Who Should Apply?
We welcome applications from:
- Qualified teachers seeking fewer responsibilities
- Experienced Cover Supervisors
- Former, retired or semi-retired teachers
- Recent university graduates
- Final-year university students with suitable availability
- Aspiring teachers preparing for a PGCE or SCITT programme
- Teaching Assistants ready to progress
- Tutors, sports coaches, mentors and youth workers
- Career changers with experience supporting young people
Previous classroom experience is beneficial but not always essential. You should be confident communicating with groups of secondary-aged students, able to establish clear boundaries and committed to supporting young people.
Why Choose Cover Work?
- Choose the days you want to work
- Reduce planning, marking and administration
- Gain experience across different Basingstoke schools
- Develop classroom and behaviour-management skills
- Strengthen future teacher-training applications
- Balance work with university, family or other commitments
- Access both short-term flexibility and long-term stability
- Experience different schools before accepting a permanent role
Why Teaching Personnel?
You will receive:
- Work matched to your experience and availability
- Day-to-day, short-term and long-term opportunities
- Access to CPD and professional development
- Support from a dedicated Hampshire education consultant
- Guidance throughout registration and safeguarding checks
- Opportunities to progress into permanent school roles
Apply Today
Apply with your latest CV and tell us when, where and how often you would like to work in Basingstoke.
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.
For details of our privacy policy, please visit the Teaching Personnel website.
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