Save time and money on recruitment
Teaching Vacancies is completely free. Save money on recruitment advertising and spend it where it counts most – in the classroom.
Teaching Vacancies puts you in control of your own recruitment. Post as many vacancies as you want and directly publish and edit them for free.
What is Teaching Vacancies?
Teaching Vacancies is the government's free, national job listing service for the teaching profession.
Our aim is to save schools money and time when recruiting teachers, instead of relying on paid-for job boards.
All state funded schools, trusts and local authorities in England can use Teaching Vacancies to advertise teaching, leadership and education support roles for free.
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Why should I use Teaching Vacancies?
Teaching Vacancies is now the largest source of primary teaching jobs listed directly by schools in England and the second largest for secondary teaching jobs.
Last year we received over 2.5 million views of job vacancies from potential jobseekers.
Save money
Teaching Vacancies is completely free. Save money on recruitment advertising and spend it where it counts most - in the classroom.
Save time
We have worked with hundreds of schools across England to make recruitment quick and easy for you. Simplify your search for new staff by listing jobs, receiving applications and managing candidates all in one place.
Be in control
Teaching Vacancies puts you in control of your own recruitment. Post as many vacancies as you want and directly publish and edit them for free. You won’t get any sales calls or invoices, and there are no contracts to negotiate.
How does Teaching Vacancies work?
Create a job listing
List teaching, leadership or education support roles.
List a job at a single school, multiple schools or the head office.
You can specify working pattern, contract type and pay package.
You can also upload supporting documents, for example a job description, and include information about the school or trust.
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Receive applications through Teaching Vacancies
You can choose to use the Teaching Vacancies application form for all jobs you post on Teaching Vacancies.
Our application form will help you to:
- easily identify high quality candidates
- get explanations for gaps in work history
- ensure your recruitment processes always follow the latest safeguarding requirements
Manage your jobs
View and manage all your job listings on one simple dashboard.
Staff at multi-academy trusts can manage jobs across all their schools on one dashboard.
Manage applicants on a personalised dashboard
We will notify you by email when you get a new application. You can then review the application on your Teaching Vacancies dashboard.
You can shortlist or reject applications quickly and easily, and can print or download the applications.
Who's using Teaching Vacancies?
81%
of schools in England signed up
2.2 million
vacancy views in 20211.5 million
job alert emails sent in 2021What schools say about Teaching Vacancies
“Using Teaching Vacancies was free and simple to set up… and reached a wider group of applicants than our usual advertising.”
“What we have saved is enough to recruit another teacher!”
“We like that we are totally in control and can post directly.”