Staff Absence Protection
Low-cost Staff Absence Protection for Schools – Practical Solution to your school staff absences
2.6 million teaching days lost due to absence - are you protected?
Schools Mutual Services (SMS) is a not-for-profit, mutual recruitment organisation dedicated to education and established to keep valuable resources within the sector.
Our schools are our members and part of the SMS family.
Staff absence is a real and unique issue for education. Whether it’s sickness, operations or injury related – the need to continue to deliver good education means that effective financial management is critical.
Education budgets are stretched at best and in many cases much worse. So, here at Schools Mutual Services, we’ve listened to our members and are proud to launch our brand-new service, giving you complete peace of mind, our dedicated ‘low-cost’ option for Staff Absence Protection.
Why Schools Mutual Services Staff Absence Protection?
Our philosophy and principles remain the same, ensuring unwavering focus on the education sector and giving back to our member schools.
Our brand-new service, Schools Mutual Services Staff Absence Protection, gives you a practical solution for affordable protection.
And the best bit is that our service is powered by the UK’s largest member owned provider of staff absence protection – Education Mutual – governed by Education Leaders and managed by experts.
A great example of where 1+1, really does give you more than 2!
Your Protection, Simply Explained
- maternity cover
- parental leave
- adoption leave
- bereavement leave
- suspension cover
- compassionate Leave
- major incident cover
- jury service
- phased return
- stranded staff cover
- Covid-19.
- menopause counselling
- Financial well-being coaching
- mental health and well-being first aid training, counselling sessions, stress coaching
- nurse support services, physiotherapy and surgical assistance programme
- well-being hub.
Our Mutual Fund, powered by Education Mutual
Education Mutual run solely for the benefit of its members to provide staff absence protection that is cost-effective and re-invests into the education sector. To date Education Mutual has re-invested more than £1 million back into the Education Sector.
Their board is made up of leaders in education who, like our members, want the best for their budget, together with the flexibility of a commercial provider.
Our Governance
Schools Mutual Services is governed by a Board of Directors who are senior education leaders and whose sole purpose is to ensure the dedicated focus, highest quality of services and lowest cost options for education.
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