Education employment contract
Define flexible teaching placements without weakening safeguarding, classroom or employment clarity.
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Clear role overview and key responsibilities.
Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.
Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.
Standard and flexible working arrangements.
Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.
Client and company confidentiality.
Clear process and employee rights.
Notice terms explained for both parties.
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Deliver delivered lesson or activity using the school's lesson or activity plans and learning platforms, daily attendance entry in the school's attendance and progress records, and formative progress notes or assessment entries in the school's assessment records.
Workplace context: School, college or other agreed education premises and authorised off-site educational activities.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering deliver learning using provided lesson or activity plans and learning platforms with reasonable skill and care. Maintain accurate attendance and assessment records in the school's systems each day. Record and escalate safeguarding disclosures and welfare concerns in the school's safeguarding records promptly. Follow the school's behaviour and inclusion procedures when managing pupil conduct. Protect confidentiality of pupil information, safeguarding, SEN and assessment records and report any suspected loss or unauthorised disclosure.
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: Can make classroom-level adaptations to planned lessons and record daily attendance, formative progress and behaviour incidents in the school's systems. Must not approve formal SEN assessments, permanent exclusions, or final summative assessment changes. Must escalate: any safeguarding disclosure, suspected abuse, serious behaviour incident requiring exclusion, requests for SEN assessment, or any unauthorised data access to the school's named safeguarding contact or the employer's reporting line as specified in the placement. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Maintained role evidence
These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for education work.
School, college or other agreed education premises and authorised off-site educational activities.
Ofsted context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering deliver learning using provided lesson or activity plans and learning platforms with reasonable skill and care. Maintain accurate attendance and assessment records in the school's systems each day. Record and escalate safeguarding disclosures and welfare concerns in the school's safeguarding records promptly.
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Role wording
Deliver delivered lesson or activity using the school's lesson or activity plans and learning platforms, daily attendance entry in the school's attendance and progress records, and formative progress notes or assessment entries in the school's assessment records.
Accept and attend agreed school placements. Deliver supplied or authorised lesson plans. Manage pupils under each school's procedures. Record attendance safeguarding and learning issues. Complete concise class and placement handovers.Builder answers
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Specific clauses
Can make classroom-level adaptations to planned lessons and record daily attendance, formative progress and behaviour incidents in the school's systems. Must not approve formal SEN assessments, permanent exclusions, or final summative assessment changes. Must escalate: any safeguarding disclosure, suspected abuse, serious behaviour incident requiring exclusion, requests for SEN assessment, or any unauthorised data access to the school's named safeguarding contact or the employer's reporting line as specified in the placement.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering deliver learning using provided lesson or activity plans and learning platforms with reasonable skill and care.
Maintain accurate attendance and assessment records in the school's systems each day.
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Record the disclosure immediately in the school's safeguarding records (date, time, pupil words, your actions). Promptly inform the school's named safeguarding contact and follow the placement's reporting lines to notify the employer as required; do not promise confidentiality to the pupil.
You may enter formative progress notes and update daily attendance or lesson-level assessment records in the school's learning platforms or assessment records. You must not change final summative assessment outcomes or approve SEN assessments; raise proposed assessment changes or SEN requests with the practice or department manager or the school's specified approver.
Define availability and refusal terms accurately.
Set the school, agency and teacher expectations.
State notice, communication and pay consequences.
Only within agreed competence and placement scope.
Use the placement school's process and notify the employer.
Use authorised timesheets or booking records.
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