TEACHERS PAGE

NEWS -

• Job Vacancies

• LDBS teaching and non teaching staff application forms / Contracts / Grievance, Redundancy, Capability & Absence sample letters - August 2008

• LDBS "Create your own advert" website - to advertise a job vacancy in the TES and get LDBS discounted rates

• LDBS Recruitment & Retention SLA

• LDBS Appointment of Headteachers & Deputies: model invitation to attend an interview letter; reference request letter & Check list. (word docs)
  Reference addendum (pdf file) to the LDBS book "Appoitment of Headteachers and Deputies" which can be bought via this link.

• Recruitment Drive for Teacher Staffing Vacancies
  Inform Recruitment Ltd - www.informrecruitment.co.uk
  Teacher recruitment specialists working closely with the LDBS to fill short / long term and permanent vacancies throughout the Diocese.
  Give Brett Owen a call on 020 7502 7262

• DCSF Schools Recruitment Service - An improved process for recruiting all permanent leadership, teaching and support staff - launched in September 2009 by the DCSF in partnership with Tribal.

• Pre OfSTED Self Assessment Tracking (word doc - September 2009)
  

• Calendar of courses being run for teaching staff
  

• Management and Leadership Courses
  Other Courses

• CRB Checks
  


• Teachers' Pay Calculator

• School Worship Calendar 2009/10 (Word document)
  

• National Professional Qualification for Headship
  

• Early Years Professional Certificate of Eduation (PCE) - LDBS SCITT Programme
  2009/10 E-Learning / blog - Student access
  

• Grants for school journey/field trips
  

• Act of Worship: The Good Shepherd (Adobe acrobat format)

• Advice on managing death and bereavement - May 2006 (Adobe acrobat format)

If you cannot open the Adobe documents please follow this link to download: http://www.adobe.com

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Looking for a job? Check out our vacancies board for a job at a Church of England School. Those wishing to advertise a vacancy, please contact Mitch on tel: 020 7932 1160 or email mitch.gallacher@london.anglican.org with details or use our handy online form.

Professional development opportunities:
Leadership and Management of Church of England Schools;
These recently revised courses are offered across the Autumn and Spring Terms. Read more!

Challenge of Headship Course and application form 2009-10

Preparation for Senior Leadership and application form 2009-10

Early Leaders Course and application form 2009-10

 

Other Courses; These recently revised courses are also on offer. Read more!

There are a number of courses being held for NQTs - please click on this link for more information.

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Teachers' Pay Calculator
The DCSF has produced a useful calculator which can bve used to generate a personalied and detailed statement of a teacher's salary in a very clear format ie number of spine points, permanent and temporary management points, London allowance etc. This would be helpful for providing the annual salary statement and should therefore be of use to your finance/personnel officer. You can access it on http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/paycalc

National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
A reminder that from 1st April applicants for headship must have either completed the NPQH qualification or be working towards it. The new regulations apply to those taking up their first headship in the maintained sector (or at a non-maintained special school). From April 2009 all applicants for headships in maintained schools must hold the qualification before they make applications. Completion of the NPQH takes between six months and two years depending on experience and expertise. The programme, which is run under the auspices of the National College of School Leadership, involves online learning, school-based assessment and visits to schools. Further information from www.ncsl.org.uk .

CRB Checks
The Cabinet Office has published guidance to help organisations that use volunteers to be clear about when they do and don’t need to carry out Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks on volunteers.  The guidance will help cut unnecessary red tape and responds to concerns voiced by the voluntary sector that potential volunteers can be put off if they are asked to undergo a CRB check without good reason.  People volunteering or working with children or vulnerable adults are sometimes legally required to have a CRB check.  Where contact with vulnerable people will be limited or perhaps the person has recently been CRB checked for a different role, a decision about clearance must be made.  The guidance clearly explains how the check works as part of a proper risk management process. Other safeguards such as interviewing, training and taking references from potential volunteers can also be employed.  To order a hardcopy of the ‘Criminal Record Bureau Checks: Guidance for Volunteering’, please call 0845 015 0010 and quote reference URN 08/Z. (05.08).

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