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Welcome
Great education starts with great educators and here in Cheshire we are passionate about learning and excellence.
Whether you’re just starting a career in schools, looking for a new challenge or taking that next promotional step, Cheshire has that opportunity for you. We take a huge amount of pride in the way we support and educate our children, and that begins with attracting, recruiting and developing a quality schools’ workforce. High standards are only achievable with the very best talent, so if this is you, you’re in the right place.
Find out more about what’s on offer and see a full list of vacancies by following the links below and begin that exciting new journey today.
More detail can be found by contacting the school directly- their details will be included in the advert text.
Go to our Vacancies section
Register for an account (or Login if you already have one)
Once logged in, search for vacancies that you would like to receive alerts for
Scroll to the bottom of your search results and choose a name for your saved search and click 'Save'
You will now receive email alerts for any jobs which match your search
You can then manage your new job alert settings from within your account.
Once you’ve submitted your interest, there’s nothing more you need to do. You’ll receive email notifications whenever a job opportunity linked to the Talent pool you registered for becomes available. If you decide you no longer wish to be part of the Talent pool, you can update your preferences anytime in your candidate account.
Our privacy policy provides further information about how the data that you provide will be used, and can be found here. You may also want to refer to the schools own privacy policy too.
Login to your account
Go to the 'Your Data' tab
Find your application, click 'Delete' and follow the instructions. Deleting your application will remove it from consideration, and permanently remove any data we hold on the form.
The supporting statement is your opportunity to tell us more about your specific skills, knowledge and experience and how these meet the needs of the role. We recommend that you look at the job role profile and any other supporting documentation and explain how you meet these requirements.
The job description will explain the key tasks and activities that you would be expected to carry out. This won’t cover everything but should provide a good summary of what you would need to do. The person specification will provide more information about the qualification, skills, knowledge and experience that you should have in order to do the job. The Job Role Profile if included gives a more holistic overview of the role and the skills required.
No, your current school won’t know that you have applied for another job unless you choose to tell them. However, you should include your current/most recent employer as a referee and therefore you should tell them that you are applying for another role.
We will normally contact your references before you attend an interview, in line with Safer Recruitment principles.
Safer recruitment is a framework of policies and practices designed to ensure that individuals working with children and young people are suitable and safe. It is a critical part of safeguarding in schools and complements Safeguarding Children in Education legislation.
Every job has a closing date and after the closing date has passed, the job will be removed from the site. We would encourage you to make your application as soon as you see a job so that you don’t miss out on any opportunities.
If you are offered a job role in a school, this will be subject to pre-employment checks as part of a conditional offer of appointment. This will include obtaining satisfactory references from those people who you have named on your application form, completing a medical questionnaire and obtaining a DBS plus Barred List check. In addition to this, if you are a teacher, we will also check that you have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). If working with children in a support role, specifically early years, that you are not disqualified from working with children. A full list of pre employment checks can be found in KCSIE legislation – keeping children safe in education.
You will be asked to provide confirmation that you are eligible to work in the UK when you are invited to attend an interview. You should bring this along with you when you attend for interview and also again, if you are appointed to the job. Suitable documents which confirm this eligibility could include a UK passport, but for further information see https://www.gov.uk/legal-right-work-uk
A DBS check is a Disclosure and Barring Service check which allows an employer to check if an individual has a criminal record. There are different types of check for different jobs and not all jobs are eligible to be checked. This check is carried out to prevent people who are unsuitable, from working with children.
Within a school environment, most job roles are subject to an enhanced DBS check plus Barred List check. This means that before working in a school, we would need to confirm if you have any relevant criminal convictions, cautions or reprimands and we would also need to check that you are not barred from working with children.
QTS is Qualified Teacher Status and this is required to teach in a local authority maintained school. QTS is awarded by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) or Education Workforce Council (if awarded in Wales) following assessment. If you are offered a job as a teacher, the school will check to make sure that you have QTS.
An Early Career Teacher - a Teacher who has not yet completed the statutory induction programme.
The main difference between an academy and a maintained school is that an academy receives its funding directly from central government, whilst a maintained school receives funding directly from the local authority. Academies currently have more freedoms than maintained schools, to follow their own curriculum, employ staff on their own terms and conditions etc.
We don’t hold a central list of supply teachers and therefore, we recommend that you either contact a school directly, or alternatively register with a recruitment agency to provide supply teaching.
Some schools have chosen to adopt a Local or Real Living Wage and this will provide a minimum hourly rate for all work.
Many job roles working in schools are less than 37 hours a week or working less than a full year (due to school holidays) also called – term time only or TTO. Where a job role indicates pro-rata next to the salary, this means that the salary will be adjusted to reflect working less than full-time or less than a full-year. Holiday pay including statutory holidays are included within this.
