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Lesson Supervisor

Job details
Posting date: 05 June 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 15 June 2025
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 9QH
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 31e1d8ad-dce3-4f0e-879f-b7790e807917

Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint highly motivated, skilled and creative Lesson Supervisor who will share our vision and ambitions for our young people. The successful applicant will need to have very good numeracy and literacy skills as well as excellent communication and inter-personal skills. Experience of working with young people in a school setting is desirable.

This post offers an outstanding opportunity to join our school and is ideal for an ambitious person who is looking to develop professionally. The role may suit anyone who may be considering a career as a teacher.

Our team of lesson supervisors work across the whole curriculum and they also provide support to students as needed. You will supervise the work that has been set by the teacher and manage the behaviour of pupils in the classroom to ensure a positive learning environment. We are looking for:

• Someone who is an excellent role model, creative and motivational
• Someone who is able to inspire and challenge young people
• Someone who has experience of working with young people preferably in a classroom environment
• Someone with exciting ideas who can build on existing good practice
• Someone who will be engaged in all aspects of a thriving school

What the school offers its staff

Silverdale School is an extremely popular and high achieving 11-18 comprehensive inthe south west of Sheffield and is the founding school of Chorus Education Trust. Silverdale has 1,450 students on roll including 450 in Silverdale Sixth Form. In 2020 it was named the Sunday Times Top State Secondary School in the North of the Decade, in recognition of its sustained success.

Silverdale has an excellent record of student achievement at both key stage 4 and key stage 5. At our heart is one of the country’s original teaching school hubs, the South Yorkshire Teaching Hub, which includes the Sheffield Teacher Training Alliance and National Modern Languages SCITT.

At Silverdale, we benefit from a new building with excellent facilities, which was expanded in 2023 to provide further state of the art teaching facilities and a dedicated Sixth Form centre.

In addition to trust-wide benefits for all staff, those at Silverdale School also have access to:

• Supportive and friendly staff and leadership team.
• Free staff parking.
• Opportunity to be part of the varied extracurricular offering, including Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.