Join Our Not-for-Profit School-Owned Organisation!
- £130-£160 Per Day
- Flexible, Part-time, Full-time & Long-Term
- Oxford, Botley, Didcot, Henley
- UK Applicants ONLY – sponsorship is not available
Are you passionate about supply teaching and looking for your next opportunity to make a difference? We invite you to join our team as a Primary School Supply Teacher in Oxford! 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 and free on-site parking, with weekly wellness and development calls with your dedicated contact.
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) have immediate opportunities, across our family of schools, for experienced Primary Supply Class Teachers with availability for daily, short-term and long-term supply cover assignments with potential permanent placements.
Our schools rely on SMS to meet their cover requirements daily and the demand for experienced Primary Supply Teachers across Oxford is growing rapidly. We need Primary Supply Teachers who live locally in Oxford who can cover immediate vacancies.
We need Primary Supply Teachers who:
- Are excellent classroom practitioners with Primary experience
- Have clear knowledge of the primary 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 primary 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
You will need a recognised UK teaching qualification or overseas equivalent and recent successful teaching or teaching practice together with a minimum of 12 months classroom experience. 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.
OTSA
During 2024 OTSA undertook some detailed research looking into the amounts charged by supply agencies, both daily charges for supply staff and finders fees for permanent staff. We were shocked to find out how little supply colleagues are paid compared to how much schools are charged.
OTSA’s mission to reduce supply costs for schools, whilst paying supply colleagues more has established a partnership with Schools Mutual Services, a non-profit supply and recruitment organisation.
Working with Schools Mutual Services could keep as much as £800,000 a year in Oxfordshire schools, that would otherwise be profit for supply agencies, whilst ensuring that supply colleagues are paid more.
SMS have opened an Oxfordshire office in Littlemore and Georgia and Jasmine are busy recruiting colleagues to support Oxfordshire schools with their supply and staffing needs.
We are on a mission to change things and ask you to help us with our mission and register with Schools Mutual Services today!
SMS Principles:
- To provide high-quality and reliable support staff and teachers for all schools.
- To ensure fair pay & conditions for the staff employed but to also remain fiercely competitive
- 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 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.