Guidance For Schools
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Recruitment Planning
Working with our specialists gives recruiters access to a comprehensive range of professional services, enabling schools to attract, assess and select the best people.
Our Recruitment and Advertising Service will work with school leaders to provide strategic support, helping to shape your school’s future workforce. At this stage of the recruitment process we can help you with;
- Job Descriptions and Person Specifications
- Job Evaluations
- Succession Planning
- Department Restructures
Advertising
Our Human Resources professionals are on hand to work with school managers on creating and implementing effective recruitment strategies, helping you save time and money and avoid discrimination at every step. We offer:
- Free advert design & artwork
- Excellent value & discounts
- Marketing options – targeting the right candidates
- Exposure to a large candidate pool
Advertising costs and deadlines
The deadline for receipt of all adverts is Tuesday at 12 noon for all adverts to be placed from Monday of the following week..
Please click here for an update price list for Prospects and Prospects online.
Changes to deadlines may occur for adverts to be placed in the first week after a school holiday. Please contact the Recruitment and Advertising team for details.
Managing Applications and Shortlisting
Our Recruitment and Advertising Service can manage the application process for you, from application tracking to management of references. This process includes;
- Administration Support - Reference Management
- Online Application Facility
- Candidate Tracking
Assessment and Selection
We can help you to select competent and motivated people by assessing not only their skills and experience but also behaviours and values. We can help with;
- Psychometric Testing
- Assessment Centres
- Safer Recruitment Trained Panels
- CRB / ISA / GTC checks
- Arranging Interviews & Managing Correspondence
Monitoring and Evaluation
We can monitor the effectiveness of the marketing of your vacancy for future recruitment planning.
- Analysis of advert response and media
- Data Security
- Candidate Feedback
- Induction
Products and Services
This programme has been developed to assist school leadership in building capacity within their schools by providing training and development opportunities for managers.
The DCSF led training provides valuable information on a safer school/organisational culture; and advice and guidance to strengthen safeguards against employing unsuitable people in Education.
We are able to offer a number of training courses / workshops based on all aspects of Human Resources Management, delivered in a format that best suits the needs of your individual school.
Assessment Centres and venues can be arranged at the request of recruiting managers. Please contact your Human Resources Advisor.
Full details and costs of the above programmes are available from the Human Resources Advisory & Business Consultancy Service.
Safeguarding Children
Our team includes NCSL – trained Safer Recruitment trainers and we work in partnership with Child Protection experts to offer training on essential safer recruitment practices. The DCSF led training provides valuable information on a safer school/organisational culture; and advice and guidance to strengthen safeguards against employing unsuitable people in Education. This will help demonstrate effective recruitment and selection processes are in place. Contact our Human Resources team for further information
One-to-one tuition initiative
Our current catch up arrangements are not working for all pupils; some pupils need assistance which is beyond our power to deliver in the context of the whole class or small groups. We believe that a more individualised approach will help this group of pupils to make the progress they need to catch up and reach national expectations. Therefore individual tuition is available to pupils who started the key stage behind national expectations or who are falling behind during the latter stages of a key stage.
Local Authorities have the opportunity to offer individual tuition (and 2 hours of tutor planning / liaison time) for up to 3.5% of the cohort in English and / or 3.5% of the cohort in mathematics of the pupil cohort in Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3; and a similar proportion of Key Stage 4 pupils in National Challenge schools who meet these criteria.
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