Are you passionate about supply teaching and looking for your next opportunity to make a difference? We invite you to join our Guaranteed Supply Work scheme as an Early Years, Primary or Secondary School Supply Teacher in Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Shields and Sunderland! Our not-for-profit mutual organisation is dedicated to providing exceptional education and support to our community of schools.
SMS offer the best rates of pay paid on a weekly basis, PAYE contracts, holiday and sick pay, enhanced pension provision, in-person training and effective CPD, extensive health & wellbeing including 24-hour GP services, with weekly wellness and development calls with your dedicated contact.
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) have immediate opportunities, across our growing family of schools, for experienced Supply Class Teachers with availability for daily, short-term and long-term supply cover assignments.
Our schools rely on SMS to meet their cover requirements daily and the demand for experienced Supply Teachers across Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Shields and Sunderland is growing rapidly. We need Supply Teachers who live locally who can cover immediate vacancies.
We need Supply Teachers who:
· Are excellent classroom practitioners with Early Years, Primary and Secondary experience
· Have clear knowledge of the relevant curriculum
· Work effectively as part of a whole school team
· Can contribute to the wider school community
What we can offer:
Our wonderful family of schools, where children love to attend and learn from an inspiring curriculum and where the staff team work together to promote the highest possible standards, plus:
· Personalised professional development opportunities
· Highly effective support team
· A committed and skilled team of professionals
· Guaranteed payment, 5 days per week during term-time
You will need a recognised UK teaching qualification or overseas equivalent and recent successful teaching or teaching practice and we welcome ECTs to join our unique scheme. You must be able to provide references for your teaching experience and have the right to work in the UK.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. Following our compliance checks you will be supported by your dedicated SMS contact, to find the right fit within our growing community of schools and multi-academy trusts and will have access to permanent teaching opportunities.
Apply for this position and upload your CV, one of the SMS team will be in touch.
SMS Principles:
1. To provide high-quality and reliable support staff and teachers for all schools.
2. To ensure fair pay & conditions for the staff employed but to also remain fiercely competitive
3. To give back to schools by not taking excess profits out of education
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) is a not-for-profit, mutual supply agency dedicated to education. The business was born out of sheer frustration at the exorbitant margins being made by supply agencies. Nick Hurn OBE, the former Chief Executive Officer of Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust is the company’s chairman, and the board is made-up of current education executive leadership. The Board’s primary goal is to ensure valuable resources remain in the sector and pay & benefits are commensurate with colleagues, critical for maintaining quality of education provision.
About SMS
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) is a not-for-profit supply staffing agency, owned and managed by schools. It was created to deliver ethical, transparent, and cost-effective staffing solutions across the education sector. Unlike commercial agencies, SMS keeps spend in the education system, helping schools protect their budgets while ensuring supply educators receive fair pay, professional development, and alignment to national pay scales.
With regional hubs covering the whole of the North East, East Midlands and the South East, Schools Mutual Services works with executive leaders in schools and academies across Newcastle, Durham, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Shields, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicester, Oxfordshire, Swindon and Berkshire.
Each hub is embedded within its local education community, working in partnership with schools, academies, multi-academy trusts and teaching alliances such as OTSA, to deliver tailored supply staffing support across primary and secondary education, whether that is day-to-day supply teaching or long-term placements.
From multi academy trusts to community primary and special schools, SMS is helping educational establishments navigate financial pressures with a smarter, more cost-effective and sustainable solution for supply teachers and supply support staff, that puts pupil outcomes first.
