Teaching recruitment solutions
in the UK

Find out how our education services can help you find high quality candidates today, and prepare informed strategies for tomorrow. 

The education sector has had to adapt to wide-ranging shifts in recent years; from evolving ways of working to heightened retention challenges. One thing has remained the same though; providing the best education relies on having the right people with the right skills in place. From early careers teachers right through to headteachers and executive leadership. 

Whether you’re a school, college, academy, MAT (Multi Academy Trusts) or nursery, we have the knowledge and scale to find the right people for your institution. Our geographical reach and sophisticated network allow our consultants to search over 100,000 education professionals. We’re perfectly placed to match the right candidates to your vacancies, providing daily supply, long term and permanent recruitment solutions. We also provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions specifically designed for academies, head offices and national MATs. We’re in a unique posisiton to cover all education, leadership and head office vacancies, from finance to IT and estates. Our services include recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), managed service programme (MSP), services procurement (SOW), direct sourcing, early careers and total talent solutions. 

We know that hiring is just one challenge that organisations in education face. Our end-to-end services go beyond recruitment alone, with our innovation in technology providing your institution easy access to CPD opportunities, unique insights and valuable teaching resources for a truly unrivalled value proposition. Our Education Hub provides a seamless, single point of access to all our services, including our staff training portal, Recruitment Platform, and our student learning package, Inspire. 

And with REC Audited Education status, you can be assured that we’re committed to achieving and maintaining the highest standards of recruitment practice. Our safe recruitment process is achieved through stringent screening, vetting and aftercare systems for candidates, highly accredited procedures and robust staff training. 

Our experience across all teaching fields

We deliver a comprehensive selection of roles in education, including: 

Supply teachers – ensure that you have the staff to fill in last-minute vacancies. 

Early years – enjoy the help of enthusiastic early years educators. 

Teaching assistants – attain TA professionals who can make a real difference to education, including SEN TA and one-to-one support. 

ECTs – gain valuable, resilient trainees with bright futures and the latest pedagogical training. 

Leadership – drive the performance of your institution with experienced and proven leaders. Our dedicated Hays Leadership team deliver successful recruitment campaigns at all levels of education leadership, including interim appointments. 

Primary teachers – find inspiring primary teachers for all key stages. 

School technicians – keep your class environments safe and engaging with our diligent, well-rounded candidates. 

Secondary teachers – draw from a talent network of resilient and engaging secondary teachers across all subjects and key stages. 

SEN professionals – secure staff who can provide differentiated support. 

Support staff – we’ll deliver your institution the education and administrative aid it needs. 

International teachers – bring in talented teachers with a desire to see students succeed. 

Our successful teaching placements 

We have a proven track record of placing passionate people across education settings of all sizes. In the past 12 months, we’ve placed over 3,000 permanent positions in education – from teachers, ECT, TLR, TA and support, to headteachers and CEOs. On top of this, we actively work with more than 10,000 temporary education staff each week. 

In addition to hiring requirements, we’ve provided schools with the strategic and technical support they need to be resilient in the face of future challenges.