Overview

Education Recruitment Advisors

Start date : TBC

Location : Home-based. Some travel required.

Salary : Dependant on experience, circa £35,000

Hours : Full-time 37.5 hours per week or part time would be considered.

Training Duration : Initial 3 days intensive training followed by longer term on the job training & mentoring

Contract : Fixed term until 15 September 2024.

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• While we’re happy to take the best candidate from any part of the country, the ability to support candidates who are looking to train to become teachers in the West Midlands would be an advantage.
• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes