Competing for supply with retired and newly qualified teachers
I have spent 5 years on day to day supply unable to make any plans for the future.
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- 14Teacher voice
Eleven years to qualify, then stuck on short-term supply
It took me 11 years of resilience, hard work and determination (that’s including my probation year) to qualify as a Primary Teacher only for me to find myself stuck on short term supply with the occasional fixed term contract.
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Replaced in a supply job I was already working
My relationship of 7 years is struggling as we cannot move on in life as I can’t get any sort of long-term or permanent work in teaching.
- 16Teacher voice
Still paying off debt from 10 months without supply
I’m still paying off credit cards and loans that we had to use in the 10 months I couldn’t get any supply work.
- 17Teacher voice
Supply posts filled in under three minutes
While some supply requests are being sent out by some schools during the current session, the large number of teachers on the supply list makes it very difficult to actually get a post. Posts are often being filled in under 3 minutes!
- 18Teacher voice
9 years on supply since probation year. Four short fixed term contracts in between.
I became a secondary English teacher because teaching is my calling and don't want to do anything else. I was an EFL teacher before.
- 19Teacher voice
Assaulted at work, told leaving would break my service
I have been physically assaulted on numerous occasions while working (bitten, punched, spat on, kicked). Despite this, I have been informed by HR that leaving my supply position will result in my continuous service being broken.
- 20Teacher voice
Back from teaching abroad and now on benefits
I have since returned home for family reasons, but my partner has had to remain abroad because he has been unable to secure work in Scotland and was not even able to get onto a supply list.
- 21Teacher voice
Five days of supply in two years
I do not want to give up but I feel like I can no longer put myself on the firing line and be continually fighting for a job.
- 22Teacher voice
Left a permanent job to retrain, now on supply
I may get kept on, I may not. Explaining this to family for borrowing money is mentally draining.
- 23Teacher voice
Permanent by my fifth year or I leave teaching
The price we pay for being new, all the time, is something that doesn’t get talked about but in my view is huge.
- 24Teacher voice
Three years of recruitment, then back on supply
I have been requested back to schools for continuity and been told I couldn’t go by the council.