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Continued Professional Development is offered to all our Teachers and Support staff to develop skills and ensure teaching knowledge is up-to-date.

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Continued Professional Development available for all our Teachers and Support Staff

Free Access to Online Training - Candidate Go

Candidate Go is an online platform used to provide online training courses to all registered staff. They offer over 25 different free courses which can be accessed by a link provided by The Staff Room on request. The list of available courses are:

  • Alcohol Awareness Training
  • Anti-radicalisation & Prevent Awareness
  • Autism Awareness
  • Behaviour Management
  • Bullying Awareness
  • Child Sexual Exploitation
  • Cover Supervisor for Schools
  • Cyber Security
  • Drug Awareness & County Lines
  • Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
  • E-Safety
  • Exam Invigilation
  • FGM Awareness
  • First Aid
  • Food Hygiene
  • Health & Safety
  • Introduction to Abuse
  • Keeping Child Safe in Education
  • Sexting
  • Social Media for Teachers & Staff
  • Student Mental Well-being training
  • UK GDPR & Data Protection

 

Employee Assistance Programme

We are all human and challenges in life or at work impact on our wellbeing and our effectiveness.  Working within the education sector can be very stressful and we at The Staff Room recognise this.  We actively support all our staff and offer help, advice and a sympathetic ear when needed.  Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) can offer additional support giving confidential help and guidance.  All Staff Room teachers and support staff can benefit from the following

  • Employee Wellbeing Advice – From tackling stress & anxiety to general concerns. All workers will have instant access to advice when they need it most.
  • Counselling & Programs – free access to qualified and experienced counsellors that provide solution-focused sessions, aiming to improve wellbeing and provide effective coping mechanisms.
  • Online Health Portal – Our workers can access relevant information online, via a health portal. This provides help and guidance over matters such as health, sleep, nutrition, money and debt, and relationships.

Working with us – means you are part of a team and never alone.

Safeguarding for Teachers and Support Staff

All our teachers and support staff are required to complete our online Safeguarding training course provided by Candidate Go. This course has been written to meet the safeguarding needs of those working in the education sector and is renewed every 12 months. The Staff Room provides the course free of charge to all registered candidates and pays for the time taken to complete the training.

Keeping Children Safe In Education

Every year we ensure that all staff are provided with Part 1 of the Keeping Children Safe in Education document which is a statutory guidance from the Department for Education. They are also sent The Staff Room’s Safeguarding & Child Protection policies to be read in conjunction with any amendments to the KCSIE document.

Oak National Academy

Oak provides a completely free sequenced plan of lessons which can be used to help with lesson planning. With nearly 40,000 lessons and resources across a broad range of subjects from EYFS up to Year 11 in most subjects, there are enough lessons for the whole year.  There are also 600 lessons for pupils who normally attend specialist settings.  Every lesson has been created by teachers, for teachers.  They’ve been tried and tested with pupils taking part in 138 million lessons since April 2020.  Head to their teacher hub https://teachers.thenational.academy/

The Staff Room Reference Library

Many of our teachers and support staff utilise our in-house reference library.  From books on Talk for Writing to Planning the Primary Curriculum, our up-to-date books cover a wide variety of topics and schemes to help our candidates plan or deliver pre-planned lessons to primary children.  All our books can be borrowed for free, by registered staff and are available from our Northampton office on request.