English Cover Teacher (Secondary) – South Bristol
Protocol Education are recruiting confident and proactive English Cover Teachers to support secondary schools across South Bristol. You’ll step into the classroom when teachers are absent, delivering pre-planned English lessons and ensuring students stay motivated, supported, and on track with their learning. This role is ideal for both experienced teachers looking for flexibility, or English ECTs looking to gain valuable classroom experience and build relationships with schools in Bristol to springboard into a long-term career. Successful applicants will bring subject knowledge, energy, and the ability to build positive relationships with both staff and students.
What the job looks like:
• Confidently delivering pre-planned English lessons, ensuring strong ratios of student engagement and completion
• Managing behaviour in line with school policies, with both consistency and warmth
• Supporting students with professionalism, encouragement, and patience
• Collecting and organising completed work for the use of the classroom teacher
• Reporting back on learning progress and behaviour for the use of the classroom teacher
Why Protocol?
• Competitive rates of pay through PAYE (varied based on qualification and experience)
• Guaranteed work agreements that guarantee consistent work and income
• FREE continued professional development training (CPD) including Team Teach
• Social events including free bowling and pizza nights
• Termly awards that celebrate outstanding performance and commitment
• Ongoing honest, friendly and professional support from our dedicated team of experts
• A £50 Bonus ‘refer a teacher/TA’ payment scheme
Apply now to gain flexible classroom experience, build your teaching confidence, and take the next step in your English teaching career.
All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.
All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
Protocol Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants.
We offer FREE online safeguarding and Prevent Duty training to all our workers. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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