justteachers

Sector

Professional Services

Location:

SKIPTON

Established in

2004

Employees

Website

About us

justteachers is an award winning supplier of teachers, support staff and nursery nurses into schools, colleges and nurseries throughout the UK. In addition to supporting mainstream schools for all of their Primary and Secondary requirements, we also have teams who work specifically with SEND and Alternative Provisions. Our growth in recent years reflects the high level of service we deliver to our stakeholders and our commitment to safeguarding to ensure schools can focus on delivering outstanding education. Our REC Audited Education accreditation means that we provide a risk managed service to both teaching staff and schools. We have a network of offices across the UK supplying the Midlands, the North West, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Lancashire and the South.

Our mission is:

To ensure that our recruitment and selection procedures fulfil responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and for all our team to share this commitment. We adopt a Safer Recruitment Policy in line with the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ to satisfy the Ofsted principle of ‘minimising risk to children, young people and adults by evaluating the effectiveness of schools’ procedures for safeguarding’ – Ofsted Framework for School Inspection April 2018.

By meeting this commitment to safeguarding and through the support we offer our candidates, our clients can focus on delivering outstanding education.

Excellence in Wellbeing 2020 - 2021

Excellence in Wellbeing 2018 - 2019

What employees say

I started working at justteachers in 2014, being appointed as an Education Recruitment Consultant. My background prior to this was in design and sales, so I had a good grounding and understanding of the sales process, but was given additional support and guidance to transfer my skills and develop my career within the education sector. My role has evolved to being responsible for building a new area geographically, in particular supporting SEND and SEMH settings within North and West Yorkshire. Visiting client schools and seeing the difference our candidates have made, is the most rewarding part of my job. Having been recently promoted to Team Leader, I am continuing to be supported through justteachers to complete Diploma for Managers- which I look forward to doing so by the end of 2019.

Kara Bayer

Team Leader

82 %

Management shows a sincere interest in me as a person, not just an employee.

89 %

Management has a clear view of where the organisation is going and how to get there.

90 %

The senior leaders of my organisation are people I trust.

88 %

We have special and unique benefits here.

90 %

When I look at what we accomplish, I feel a sense of pride.

91 %

I believe my organisation is highly regarded by its clients/customers.

What defines us

“Working for justteachers isn’t like working for another agency, yes there are the individual perks like free fruit and wellbeing lunches, and the occasional visits from Una the office dog, but mainly what makes JT a great place to work is the culture.

Lots of places will tell you they have an open-door culture, they will keep telling you until you attempt to walk through it- and then you will find the door can be rather less open than they said initially. justteachers is a little different, the door is really open, and from sales support all the way to the top billing consultant, I know that If I want to ask advice or help from anyone, they will try to find the time for me. For me, that’s the main difference- and what means the place deserves its title as a great place to work.” John Pease, Education Consultant- Coventry Office

What inspires us

We are committed to investing in and building upon a team of highly talented and motivated people and we pride ourselves on our staff retention and longevity of service, putting employees at the heart of our organisation.

justteachers offer full training from day one right through to 'graduation' `and beyond- and we run an unique 'milestones' training programme, whereby Consultants are rewarded and recognised when achieving different levels of targeted activity.

In addition to this, we regularly run incentive days for teams and offices, as well as an annual company day where everybody gets together to celebrate the achievements of the year just gone and plans for the year ahead.

As a company we offer a generous remuneration package and commission structure for Consultants, as well as:

-30 days annual leave ( plus bank holidays and day off for your birthday)

-Reduced working hours during the school holidays

-Wellness extended lunch once a week

-Excellent CPD opportunities

-Contributory pension scheme

-Free fresh fruit daily

At a glance

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Action highlights

Our local reputation helps us to stand out as an employer as does the fact that we care greatly about our workforce. We are committed to the mental health and well-being of all staff and work hard to build resilience and strength across our employees. We give all of our employees access to a confidential health service which has the below facilities available:

• Confidential 24/7 telephone support with qualified counsellors

• Up to 6 face-to-face counselling sessions

• Access to financial, legal and health support

• Nurse call back and medical information

In addition, there is an online portal that provides access to:

• Health Risk Assessments

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Mini health checks

• Webinars and additional health and wellbeing support

Word from the top

Education recruitment businesses, such as justteachers, play a vital role in lessening the impact of teacher shortages through their valuable support and assistance to both schools and teachers throughout the UK. justteachers’ continued expansion reflects the high level of service it delivers to its members, its commitment to safeguarding and the support it can offer its candidates and clients to ensure they can focus on delivering outstanding education. None of this however would be possible without our internal staff. We consistently recognise and reward the contribution of all our staff, not just through a generous and transparent remuneration package but with continual team focused incentives. We encourage a relaxed and fun working environment with emphasis on well-being, ability to leave early and flexibility to have extended lunch breaks for such things as fitness activity. We want our culture to reflect the fact we are the “JT family” where every person matters.

Caroline Cafferty

Operations Director

Career and jobs

Application tips

Have you got what we're looking for?

We are committed to investing in and building upon a team of highly talented and motivated people. We recognise the contribution of all staff and their wellbeing. justteachers pride ourselves on our staff retention and longevity of service, putting employees at the heart of our organisation- offering full training from day one.

All new applicants are filtered via our internal recruitment team to ensure that they have the experience to support working in a sales and recruitment environment. All selected applicants undergo a telephone interview and if this is successful they are invited to a two-round interview process to identify their key strengths and attributes and also any barriers to success based on the answers provided.

During the second interview applicants are invited to spend half a day in the office to see how they interact with their prospective team, determine how engaged they are and to help them build a picture of what would be expected of them if they are employed by us. Key characteristics are tenacity, resilience, enthusiasm, positive outlook, willingness to learn, a good team player and an air of self-confidence.

Our great workplace

We hire candidates based on their fit for the role and our company culture. Our hiring process is thorough and gives candidates the opportunity to meet the manager, the team and also to spend some time within the positive working environment.

We operate in a very inclusive, open and transparent manner, and encourage all employees to contribute ideas at every opportunity. justteachers run ongoing incentive programs, award ceremonies and team and company-wide events annually designed to include all team members.

Application tips

- Demonstrate your experience in a similar sales or recruitment environment. Where have you succeeded in achieving targets?

-Explain how you have been faced with challenges in your career and what you have done to overcome these and succeed.

-Highlight what you think you can offer us as an employee and how you want your career to progress with us.