Teachers & Associated Professionals FAQ

Please complete the Notification of Change (teaching) form and submit it to your HR Business Partner team to authorise and forward to the relevant HR Operations team within the Employee Service Centre.

You have a choice of 2 policies –
Job Share: further inforamtion is available from F13 – Job Sharing Scheme for Teachers. If your job share partner leaves you will be offered the full time post.

Smarter Working for Teachers: complete the application form and submit to your Head Teacher for authorisation. This is a permanent change and if you are looking to return to full time at a later date you would need to apply for any vacant posts that are advertised. A pilot period can be agreed by the Head Teacher for a maximum of 6 months.

Please contact the HR Business Partner team for your service.

The school will process a temporary teachers return (known as a PYOL23) on the last Friday of the month. You are then paid 2 weeks later on the Friday.

Guidance on the Teachers Pay Calculation is available here.

Please contact the People Helpdesk for further assistance on 01698 403151 or alternatively email them at ESC-HelpDeskTeam@northlan.gov.uk.

Please contact your Head Teacher, who will contact the HR Business Partner Team for your service.

Please contact the HR Business Partner Team for your service.

Please discuss this your Head Teacher/Manager, who will advise you of the process.

Please note that Education and Families require to submit a paper to committee for approval to offer Premature Retiral.

Please contact your HR Business Partner team for further guidance.

Once the Service has concluded the Compulsory Transfer exercise you will be provided with a list of all available vacancies.

Supply teacher’s are paid a daily rate for every day that they work up to the maximum of 195 days in any school year. They also receive accrued holiday pay for every day that they work and this is paid every month hence the reason that their salary will fluctuate from month to month based on the work days available. See SNCT 31.

From 1 January 2018 all supply teachers will be paid 7 hours for a full day and will be paid at their own salary scale point.

GTC will send the names and addresses of the probationers allocated to the Authority for next session in the middle of May. The team in Education and Families will place them into schools and the probationer will find out at their Welcome Meeting (normally the start of June) where they have been allocated. If you have specific schools that you can’t be placed in, please contact the HR Business Partner for your service or Probationer Support Officers.

Contact the People Helpdesk by raising a case on the myNL Portal using the People Helpdesk General Enquiry Form>, or where you are not yet live on the Portal, you can call on (01698) 403151.

You should complete part 1of the form ‘ESS Resigning/Retiring Applying to Join the Supply Register’ and submit this to your current/last Head Teacher, who will complete part 2 and submit this to HR Business Partner team for your service.

Contact the People Helpdesk by raising a case on the myNL Portal using the People Helpdesk General Enquiry Form>, or where you are not yet live on the Portal, you can call on (01698) 403151.

You should take the 195 days of the school session and multiple it by the percentage that you are working. This will give you the number of days that you should be in attendance at work. You then need to compare them to your work pattern for the year and if you aren’t working that number of days, you owe the school the balance or if it’s over the total days you are required to work, then the school owe you the difference. This should be discussed with the head teacher at the start of every session.

Teachers have their own job share policy (Standard Circular F13 – Job Sharing Scheme) and application form (JS1 form) which you should complete and submit to your head teacher.

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Notice periods are as follows:
– Unpromoted teacher – 4 working weeks notice
– Promoted Teacher – 8 weeks notice of which 4 must be working weeks

Finishing Probationer Teachers have until the 1 November to secure employment following your probationary year i.e. get offered work from 1 September, therefore your service date for sickness and maternity would be the start date of their probationary year.

This is the same as your GTC number and will start with the year that you qualified.

Yes, you need to send in the confirmation letter that you have obtained your full GTC registration and you will be moved form Pt0 to Pt1 on the salary scale.

Teachers can have a phased return for a maximum of 4 weeks. Your line manager should take into consideration the length of the absence and the nature of the illness before agreeing to a phased return. Phased returns should be a gradual increase over the 4 week period.

Teachers can apply for a career break to their Head Teacher minimum 1 year and maximum 5 years. This needs to be authorised by your service as they are responsible for workforce planning. Teachers have the right to return to their substantive post if their career break is up to 2 years, after 2 years they are guaranteed an equivalent post within the Authority.

No.

Contact the People Helpdesk by raising a case on the myNL Portal using the People Helpdesk General Enquiry Form>, or where you are not yet live on the Portal, you can call on (01698) 403151, along with providing your details, and they will process your request to the HR Business Partner team aligned to Education & Families.

Education Staff (7 Day Week)

An employee’s Occupational Sick Pay (OSP) entitlement is based on a rolling year, so needs to go back a full year from when they went off sick and include any days that they were paid OSP during the rolling year.

Find out how your Pro Rata’d Working Days are calculated Here.