Cover Supervisor

Cover Supervisor – Sandwell
Flexible opportunities across secondary schools

Key Details:

• Position: Cover Supervisor
• Location: Secondary schools across Sandwell
• Salary: £500 – £750 per week (dependent on experience and assignment)
• Contract Type: Long-term and day-to-day cover available
• Key Stages: KS3 & KS4

The Role
We’re working with a range of Sandwell secondary schools seeking reliable, confident, and adaptable Cover Supervisors to support their teaching teams. You’ll be responsible for delivering pre-set lessons across a range of subjects, maintaining classroom order, and ensuring pupils stay on task in the absence of the regular teacher. These roles are perfect for graduates considering teaching, experienced Cover Supervisors, or teaching assistants ready for the next step.
Opportunities are available for both short-term daily supply and longer-term placements, giving you the flexibility to choose what works for your schedule.

The Candidate
You’ll need to be confident managing a classroom, resilient under pressure, and able to engage students across KS3 and KS4. Previous experience working in a school setting is ideal, though not essential—strong communication skills, a calm presence, and good organisation are key.
Ideal for:

• Graduates considering teacher training
• Existing Cover Supervisors or Teaching Assistants
• Youth workers or sports coaches with transferable skills
• A DBS on the update service (or willingness to obtain one) is essential.

The School
We work with a wide network of mainstream secondary schools across Sandwell, including both large academies and smaller community schools. These schools offer welcoming teams, supportive environments, and consistent opportunities for professional development and progression.

Due to the number of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted.

The Education Network Offer:

Our specialist team have a combined experience of over 25 years and have unrivalled reputation within the education market, taking great pride in the extremely high service levels that we provide to both our schools and our candidates. Our service is honest and efficient and, in addition to our recruitment solution, we offer the opportunity for additional training and development for our candidates. You will also receive personalised career support from the team.

The opportunity to work in friendly, caring and supportive atmosphere where every child matters. Highly supportive, committed and hard working Consultants who will endeavor to find assignments suited to your needs.
An opportunity to extend your professional development as well as excellent rates of pay.

The Education Network is committed to safe guarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Appointments will be subject to our stringent vetting procedures, including enhanced DBS checks and references.-
The Education Network is committed to Safer Recruitment and recruits to Compliance+ standards. Any appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check in addition to other safeguarding checks. The Education Network is an equal opportunities employer. The Education Network is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy.
Due to the expected high-volume of applications we receive only short-listed candidates will be contacted within 3 days.