Effective supply agencies in North Yorkshire

[MikeStan]

Hello all who are ta
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the time to read this. I will keep this as short as possible. As my missus is in the last year of a challenging midwifery degree, and we have a child to look after, I have decided to postpone
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ting my NQT till next year. As such I want to supply 2-3 days a week this year.

I have searched through various union sites, teachernet and the North Yorkshire LEA website and found between 40-50 supply agencies.

Can anyone help me seperate the wheat from the chaff and recommend 2-3 agencies that would meet my needs?

Thanks for the help in advance!

Mike

[janeb]

I can't help as I'm a Southerner (!) but I just wanted to say "Welcome and Good Luck!!"


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[NuttySupplier]

MikeStan, hi and welcome!

I don't know anything about agencies there either, but... why are you loo
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for an agency?
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I wrote a while ago... and you'll find on this forum loads of evidence of people who have avoided agencies, contacted schools direct, and won lots of work from them! It should get you off the
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ting blocks more quickly than through an agency too... There was one member who did this just last week... *goes off to find the thread*

[NuttySupplier]

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... hope this gives you food for thought!

[janeb]

So true Nutty ... that's what I've done in the last few weeks too and I have got 3 schools who are seriously interested (just waiting for Swine Flu to hit!!
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)

After phoning and ta
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in my CV, I sent a follow-up letter a week later with a laminated card showing my name,
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, contact numbers and availability - this has really gone down well and I received phone calls the same day from the schools in question.
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One school have asked if they could use me through my agency rather than independently (although hopefully in the future this may change) so I've introduced the school to my agency. My agency was so pleased that they've increased my wages!!
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[Chrismos]

Originally Posted by janeb
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My agency was so pleased that they've increased my wages!!
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How fab Jane! Mind you they should!

I rang an agency when I
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ted thin
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about supply. I was somewhat put off when the child on the other end of the line who could barely string a sentence together told me she would call me back the following day for a 'telephone interview'
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When she did call back she told me how pleased she was that I had contacts in Somerset as they had very few schools here and wanted to expand into the area!
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I thanked her politely (ish) and decided to go it alone! I have two days booked next week, two more schools who are interested and all I have done is crib and adapt Nutty's covering letter and contacted schools direct.

Good luck to you!

Chris

[Wendy]

Hi Mike, Sorry to be a pain but can I just warn you about doing supply work before you
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t your induction. I have been caught out on this. From the first day you fdo any supply work you have 4 terms in which to
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t your induction. This can be extended by a further 3 terms if necessary (you have to complete a form and an interview with the local LEA). At the end of these 7 terms you will no longer be allowed to teach if your induction is not underway or completed. You can work as an unqualfied teacher but only if there are no qualified teachers available to do the job. You would actually be better off getting supply work as a TA or HLTA if you intend to wait a year before applying for teaching posts. Sorry to be a bore about this but like I said I have been caught out and I am now in talks with my union and MP to try and be allowed back into teaching. The Statutory Guidance on Induction for Newly Qualified Teachers in England will tell you more - if you don't fall asleep first!

[MikeStan]

Thanks for your advice all, Nutty thankyou, I have already got a school who wish me to sign up personally (from before I wrote this thread), was just thin
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agency work would help suppliment that! But what you have wrote has certainly given me food for thought.

Wendy, again thanks for the concern, but haven't they scrapped the 4 term limit? Either that or the amount of time you have to complete your NQT. Read somewhere they have scrapped one of them, not sure which.

Anyway, going to look around the forum some more and
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t writing my CV.

[Wendy]

Hi Mike, from what I understand you can take forever before accepting a teaching position but from the first day you enter the classroom as a teacher then you have a maximum of 7 terms to complete your induction. If you do know different and can remember where you saw it please let me know cos as I said I have brought in my union and MP to try and get the law changed and they will be interested too.

[NuttySupplier]

Originally Posted by janeb
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(just waiting for Swine Flu to hit!!
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I know the feeling, I remember one year thin
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Christmas couldn't come soon enough because more people would be ill and I was skint!!