Cover Supervisor & Sports Coach
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2026 |
| Location: | Exeter, EX2 9JU |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4d3ba1ef-ca5b-460d-be88-f844a9e29871 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you driven to change the lives of young people?
Do you want to work in an ambitious and collaborative work culture?
We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated and capable individual to join our thriving Sports Health and Nutrition and cover teams, supporting teaching and learning across all areas of the School in addition to PE and sport. You will supervise whole classes across the curriculum areas of the school during short-term absence of teachers, responding to questions and generally assisting pupils in undertaking set activities. With your support, students, regardless of their social or cultural background, will be motivated to succeed and be supported to maximise their learning and progress. You will teach in our bespoke study hall with capacity for up to 70 children, ensuring our children get excellent provision from West Exe staff consistently. We can offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and passionate school, alongside dedicated and hardworking individuals.
If you are able to meet the requirements of this role and are passionate about becoming the best teacher and sports coach you possibly can, we would love to hear from you
What the school offers its staff
West Exe School is a highly successful secondary school in the beautiful city of Exeter and without doubt, the greatest place to work in the Southwest. We have an unashamedly academic curriculum, disruption free classrooms and an unrivalled staff development programme. Our mission is a simple but ambitious one: to educate children so they live great lives and make the world a better place.
Further details about the role
We are part of the Ted Wragg Trust, an ambitious and inclusive trust of schools strengthening our communities through excellent education.
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.
Are you driven to change the lives of young people?
Do you want to work in an ambitious and collaborative work culture?
We wish to appoint an enthusiastic, highly motivated and capable individual to join our thriving Sports Health and Nutrition and cover teams, supporting teaching and learning across all areas of the School in addition to PE and sport. You will supervise whole classes across the curriculum areas of the school during short-term absence of teachers, responding to questions and generally assisting pupils in undertaking set activities. With your support, students, regardless of their social or cultural background, will be motivated to succeed and be supported to maximise their learning and progress. You will teach in our bespoke study hall with capacity for up to 70 children, ensuring our children get excellent provision from West Exe staff consistently. We can offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and passionate school, alongside dedicated and hardworking individuals.
If you are able to meet the requirements of this role and are passionate about becoming the best teacher and sports coach you possibly can, we would love to hear from you
What the school offers its staff
West Exe School is a highly successful secondary school in the beautiful city of Exeter and without doubt, the greatest place to work in the Southwest. We have an unashamedly academic curriculum, disruption free classrooms and an unrivalled staff development programme. Our mission is a simple but ambitious one: to educate children so they live great lives and make the world a better place.
Further details about the role
We are part of the Ted Wragg Trust, an ambitious and inclusive trust of schools strengthening our communities through excellent education.
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.