Our software and services, your recruitment success.
Optimise your recruitment processes and fill your vacancies, ready for the new school year.
The education landscape has never felt so challenging
With staff leaving the profession in their droves, recruitment activity in schools and trusts is at an all-time high.
Ultimately, you need to be able to fill vacancies in your schools quickly, and with high-quality candidates. This can be challenging, given the series of issues currently facing the industry:
- Staff turnover in schools and trusts is high, with almost half of staff expected to leave the profession in the next five years.
- Recruitment can time-consuming, particularly with many schools relying on manual, paper-based processes.
- Schools are currently spending millions of pounds a year on supply cover - more than £622million in 2021-22* - with around 20-50% of that being lost to agency fees.
- Employing the wrong candidate is costly, time consuming, and even risks reputational damage to the school in serious cases.
Recruit new staff more effectively
What IRIS Education is already doing for schools like yours.
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Streamline recruitment and attract top talent
Fill vacancies with quality candidates quickly and easily. Streamline processes so it is simple for you to manage and straightforward for your applicants.
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Save thousands on supply cover
Centralise supply cover with online supply pools, saving thousands of pounds in agency fees across your trust annually.
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Ensure students’ safety
Automate the screening of candidates for peace of mind when recruiting. Protect your school’s reputation, safeguard students in line with KCSIE guidelines, and improve efficiency.
Streamline your recruitment process, from start to finish
- Digitalise recruitment processes in your school or trust by moving away from paper to online systems to improve efficiency, saving you time and money.
- Attract the best calibre of candidates and make it easy for them to apply for roles in your schools by providing a positive candidate experience through an easy, friction-free, and logical recruitment process for both applicants and HR staff.
Make use of supply pools and save thousands on supply costs
- Avoid the reliance on expensive and often-inflexible agencies by building your own pool of top talent to arrange teaching cover quickly and easily, while saving money.
- Save thousands (20-50% of supply costs) on agency fees by bypassing them completely.
- Ensure better student outcomes through continuity of cover by reusing proven staff who are familiar with your school and students.
Automate candidate screening
- Go beyond standard DBS checks and run social media checks on candidates to protect the reputation and brand of your school.
- Reduce financial and contractual risks by ensuring high quality hires that can hit the ground running and excel in the long term.
Retain staff to reduce turnover
- Keep hold of top talent while saving time and money on recruitment by supporting staff wellbeing; making sure existing staff feel happy and looked after.
- IRIS’ suite of HR platforms track employees’ training opportunities, continual professional development, progression paths, and more.
*State of education 2023: recruitment and retention | National Education Union (neu.org.uk)
**Supply teacher bills leap as staffing shortages rock schools (schoolsweek.co.uk)
