Cover Supervisor

The Royal Hospital School is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for 11-18 year olds, providing an outstanding, full and broad education enriched by a unique naval heritage and fit for the modern world. 

Founded in 1712 in Greenwich, London, it moved to its spectacular site, set in 200 acres of Suffolk countryside overlooking the River Stour, in 1933.

The School has continued to develop its spectacular purpose-built site and grow in size and reputation to become one of East Anglia’s leading independent schools.

The Royal Hospital School has the following vacancy required to start as soon as possible:

CLASSROOM COVER SUPERVISOR (casual hours)

RHS is looking to appoint a capable and enthusiastic team player to join our staff in a classroom cover supervisor role.

The role entails providing academic teaching cover for lessons across all subjects at KS3 and KS4.  The cover supervisor will supervise pupils in making good progress to complete their work during lessons where the class teacher is absent.

The successful candidate will be able to: deliver work that has been set, in accordance with the teacher’s instructions; manage the behaviour of pupils whilst they undertake work, motivating them to work effectively and ensuring a constructive learning environment; circulate the class and respond to questions and requests for help from pupils; provide feedback to the teacher on the progress of the group.

This is a casual hours contract and you will be contacted a week in advance to offer working day(s) in the following week, based on the school’s cover requirements.  While we are a 6 day a week school, we would only require availability for cover Monday to Friday, between the hours of 09:00 and 17:00 (to include prep), and 0900 to 1210 Saturday mornings.  We are able to offer cover for part or full days and we welcome applications from candidates who can offer a spectrum of availability, from those who would be available all days of the week, to those who could be available only on certain days / portions of days.

Closing date for applications: 09:00 on Friday 28 February 2025

Interviews will be held on 6 & 7 March

Applications should be made online via TES following the ‘apply’ link.  To see details of other vacancies please visit our website www.royalhospitalschool.org/vacancies .

Please also send a covering letter to recruitment@royalhospitalschool.org

If you have any queries, please contact the HR Department on recruitment@royalhospitalschool.org or 01473 326200.

For more information about the Royal Hospital School, please visit www.royalhospitalschool.org

The Royal Hospital School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees and volunteers to share our commitment. Employment is subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.  This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.