Education Recruitment Advisors - Remote

Teleperformance; Plymouth; Remote; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment company in the UK is seeking an Education Recruitment Adviser to provide support to potential teaching candidates. The role involves guiding candidates on their teaching careers, hosting events, and improving their readiness for teacher training. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree, Qualified Teacher Status, and at least 1 year of teaching experience. This is a full-time role with a fixed-term contract of 17 months, offering a salary of circa £35,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience in compulsory education in England.
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) required.
• Teaching experience of at least 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support to candidates interested in teaching.
• Host events to encourage commitment to teaching careers.
• Help candidates improve readiness for teacher training.

Skills

IT literacy

Emotional intelligence

Coaching or mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Tools

Outlook

MS Teams

Job description

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team to cover for an adviser going on maternity leave and parental leave. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses.

The Role

• Provide one‑to‑one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this.
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career.
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, e.g. by supporting them to gain school experience.
• Facilitate discussions in an online community to encourage teacher training course applications.
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders.

Essential Criteria

• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases.
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Desirable Criteria

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates.
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework.
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults.
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support.
• Able to identify improvements in working processes.

Education

• Bachelor’s (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence / Certification

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation

• United Kingdom (required)

Job Types

Full‑time, Fixed term contract

Contract length

17 months initially

Salary

Circa £35,000 per year