As an NQT or ECT, support, direction, and encouragement are all essential and at Thrive Education we pride ourselves on ensuring we provide this.

Thrive has mentored teachers new to the profession and are more than happy to advise or support you on subject knowledge, behaviour management or just provide a friendly voice at the end of the phone when you need us.
We make it our priority to make sure you are placed into a school that matches your needs whether it be to hone your skills to a particular key stage or widen your experience in other year groups. Whether you are looking for long-term, permanent or day-to-day supply roles, we’ll get to know your every teaching need to source you the perfect position.

Why ECTS should consider supply teaching?

• Experience – It will give you inside access to a huge variety of schools to
• ensure that you pick the right one for your induction.
• Flexibility – You can build your teaching days around your personal life
• and take full control of work-life balance.
• Variety – You can test-drive lots of different classroom settings to see if
• they are the right fit for your strengths.
• Transition to permanent teaching – Once you start supply teaching, it can
• make it easier for you to make the move to a permanent role

How can we help?

Building up your confidence and skills through supply roles can be the perfect way to help find your feet without having to commit to a permanent position. With the proportion of teachers remaining in the profession after the first few years decreasing rapidly; the stresses of teacher workload are clearly a catalyst for the failure to retain those early career teachers. This highlights the positive elements of supply teaching as the workload and pressures are not the same as permanent teaching roles.

Supply teaching offers you the chance to expand and build on your experience – it can be as flexible as you like. It gives you the opportunity to understand how schools offer a variety of different experiences whether it be behaviour management, SEND opportunities, more community-based curriculums, or EAL challenges. These are just some of the many differences within schools that you may find. You may find that you become a specialist yourself in one or more of these areas allowing your career path to take a different route – all because you were able to experience a variety of approaches as a result of supply teaching.

The longer you are in the role, the better understanding you’ll have of whether the role is suitable for you. Remember, gone are the days that supply teaching was for teachers who ‘couldn’t obtain permanent jobs. But, for those who choose it as a lifestyle choice in order to find the right role for them!

If you are looking for long-term placements from the offset; our consultants will spend time getting to know what YOU want from a job and will match you with a school that will provide that for longer-term placements.

For shorter-term placements, we’ll help provide the range of experience you need at this point in your career.

Register with us today and you’ll be ready to go in no time!

For Teachers

You may find the websites below helpful:

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/third-teachers-leaving-profession-within-5-years

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/twinkl-digest/trainees-news-digest/not-got-an-ect-role-secured-yet-you-could-consider-supply