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Recruiting NQTs for Essex Primary Schools. Helen Edwards Schools Workforce Recruitment Strategy Adviser Jo Lang Strategic Development Partnership Officer. Getting the best NQTs for Essex. Exploring the current role of the LA in supporting NQT recruitment Looking at potential developments
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Recruiting NQTs for Essex Primary Schools Helen Edwards Schools Workforce Recruitment Strategy Adviser Jo Lang Strategic Development Partnership Officer
Getting the best NQTs for Essex • Exploring the current role of the LA in supporting NQT recruitment • Looking at potential developments • Looking at benefits to schools • Hearing your views
Ways of working • Keep things as they are • Open Days with opportunity for schools to complete a ‘Long List’ of potential candidates • Active recruitment day/s
Option 1 - Keep things as they are • LA attends Recruitment Fairs • LA uploads details of trainee teachers on website as active jobseekers • Schools use website to recruit, maximising the tools on the site • Free to maintained schools - cheap to academies! • Little direct communication between LA and schools • Little quality control or matching
Working with EPHA and schools, we could develop this work to offer ‘best match’ NQTs: Minimal disruption Maximum benefitto Essex schools
Option 2 - Open Days • Organise a quadrant ‘Open Day’ for candidates based at a school venue where general interviews take place and a long list is produced • LA promotes at Recruitment fairs and follows up with candidates • LA completes administration for the day and organises the event including interview schedule • Detail of day decided in partnership with EPHA and schools • Schools to provide criteria for initial long listing
Option 3 - Active Recruitment Day • All the above, plus job offer made by recruiting schools • The Luton approach • Group of heads interviewing and placing NQTs on behalf of a group of schools. • LA actively recruiting quality candidates at fairs into a recruitment pool with a specific closing date. • Schools produce vacancy list for recruitment day • Formal interviews take place at recruitment day • Bank of candidates produced to be slotted into specific schools • If a school has a vacancy at short notice then the ‘bank’ can be accessed for suitable candidate.
Your views • There is a very short questionnaire on your tables for you to record your views and suggestions • But any thoughts/questions/comments to share right now?
Contact us: • Helen Edwards • 01245 436247 • 07786 125558 • helen.edwards@essex.gov.uk • Jo Lang • 01245 436158 • 07786125534 • Jo.Lang@essex.gov.uk