Do salaried schools direct roles exist?

[currain]

I'm looking to retrain as a teacher and am keen on salaried schools direct route as I am single mum and can't afford to not earn while I retrain. But I can't find out any way to apply or any options for this. Is it still a route for career changers and if so how and where so I find it? It's so confusing. I was hoping some of the teacher here can point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Yes, but in my experience they tend to be for specific people. I've been involved three times and in each case they were for staff currently employed in a school who the school wanted to be qualified.

Thanks. That's what I suspected. It looks like the days of these being available to a wider, not already connected to schools, group have gone. I'm hoping someone might come along and say I'm wrong and this is how you do it...

They seem to be very rare. Are you looking at primary or secondary? Pretty much all secondary subjects other than history attract huge bursaries now.

I’m sure they still exist. Someone I know is doing one this year (primary) - although I’m
sorry, but I don’t know how to get one!

We had ‘apprentices’ this year. That was salaried.

what type of teacher of you thinking of?

SCITT can pay whilst training.

Yes but as a PP said - usually for specific people, in my experience situations when long-serving LSAs want to train and the school wants to keep them on. Have you looked into Teach First? Not a route I would 100% recommend but if you cannot afford it any other way, it’s an option.

what do you currently do? It maybe transferable in an area colleges are struggling to recruit in which case they may take you on and train you up to teach ( IT, construction etc)

Thanks for the replies, they are all appreciated. I'm looking to do English at secondary. I can get a bursary of £15k but SCITT/PGCE training is £10k so that leaves £5k for 3 of us to live off for a year. Hence looking for salaried routes in..

As a PP said, routes like Teach First are salaried but they've specific criteria for application.

Thanks. I'd heard bad things about teach first but will relook at it again now, now I know it's the only salaried route in without already being chosen in school already. Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.

@arnoldbee if you can point me in the right direction on salaried SCITT, that would be great. I've found that's like schools direct, there no more info beyond the headlines .

@currain I did a salaried SCITT in 2019, with the lack of teachers these are very much still happening. Where in the country are you?

With a bit of luck this will show you the opportunities for salaried training positions for English.

https://www.find-postgraduate-teacher-training.service.gov.uk/results?hasvacancies=false&hassvacancies=true&studytype%5B%5D=fullltime&qualification%5B%5D=qts&qualification%5B%5D=pgcewithhqts&degreerequired=showwall_courses&funding=salary&l=2&subjects%5B%5D=Q3

OP you don’t need to include your PGCE fees - you can get a tuition fee loan to cover those and then keep your whole £15k bursary. You can also apply for maintenance loan and as a single mum on no income you’d get the max which I think is approx £10k, giving you £25k income for the year on a traditional non-salaried PGCE uni-based route into teaching. Please someone correct if I’ve gone wrong and don’t take this as a definite without a bit of further research but this is definitely how it worked for my DC who very very recently trained!

Hello! How exciting that you’re contemplating a career change!

Are you looking at primary or secondary? I’m a teacher in secondary and we take part in a training programme called SCITT , which only takes people retraining from other careers. It’s a fantastic programme (school-based rather than university based) and you get paid a salary. I think it’s overseen by Sheffield University, if you want to pursue it.
good luck!

Xavier take salaried trainees from outside of their schools but this is SE England so will depend where you live.

I believe Xavier takes most of its trainees through a consortium called Teach South East which is one of the training providers shown on the Get Into Teaching website (link in my post below).

Would you be willing to say approximately where you are in the country? There are salaried school direct routes via teaching school hubs and they usually include English.

Have you spoken to an advisor at Get Into Teaching?

Thanks so much for everyone's help, it's really appreciated and has helped me in a few areas I did not consider or know about.