Cover Teacher

Telford & Wrekin Council

Cover Teacher

£12480

Telford & Wrekin Council, Dawley Bank, Telford and Wrekin

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 day ago, 18 Sep | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: e8f5b534a8384753ae1319a42314afd0

Full Job Description

The Head Teacher and Governors are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, energetic and imaginative teacher who is passionate about teaching and learning, to undertake cover position until July 2025.

The successful candidate will be hard-working and dedicated and will fully embrace our school ethos of "Leading the way to life." If you are committed to working well with colleagues to ensure the best outcomes for our children, we would love to hear from you.

  • Be a teacher who inspires all pupils.

  • Be committed to children enjoying and engaging in their learning whilst being challenged through an interesting and diverse curriculum offer.

  • Be a real team player with excellent communication skills and will demonstrate excellent working relationships with colleagues across school.

  • Be committed to creating and maintaining effective partnerships with parents/carers, the community and other schools.

  • Have the desire and ability to drive standards, with understanding and experience of strategies for raising attainment.

  • Offers creativity and inspiration to others - children and adults alike.

  • Embrace change and innovation positively.


  • We can offer you:
  • A dedicated, hardworking cohesive team who all share the school's values and ethos.

  • Enthusiastic, motivated and well-behaved children.

  • An encouraging environment in which to develop your leadership skills and excellent opportunities for continued professional development.

  • A supportive governing body.

    We've implemented a new system from Monday 4th March which will improve your candidate experience!, Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.


  • At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.

    Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.

    In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.

    At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.

    We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.

    We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our 'guaranteed interview scheme' here

    You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here and the Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion Policy commitments here