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:
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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Lift Schools is recruiting for Teacher Training placements. Please click here to view the website for further details.
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Lift Schools believes an excellent education is an entitlement for every child, and we do everything in our power to ensure that our schools are making that a reality for every pupil in our care.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education for every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to create capacity in the sector to benefit more children and communities.
At Lift Schools, we are serious about personal and professional development.
We know that talent drives performance, we attract dynamic people and we back them to reimagine what’s possible in every classroom, for every child, every day.
Whether you're taking those exciting first steps into the world of teaching or you've worked in the education sector for some time, Lift Schools is a great place to have the biggest impact.
Our work literally changes lives and we know that only happens if we invest in our team.
Initial Teacher Training
Our Initial Teacher Training programme allows prospective teachers to gain their PGCE and QTS alongside acquiring valuable experience working within a classroom.
For a full list of our career opportunities, please visit our website.
Project H - Changing education beyond Lift Schools
Project H is our online community designed to find solutions to address the big challenges in the education sector. Project H shares resources, ideas and insights from staff across our schools and the trust.
Find out more on our Life page.
Our Benefits:
We offer the full suite of Early Career and NPQ programmes as well as our CPD offer which provides opportunities for both teaching and leadership development.
For our full list of benefits, including a great pension, discounted gym membership, salary advances and a travel and leisure scheme, visit our website.
