In my outstanding school, we have for the first time struggled to recruit. It's in an AONB, but its rural location means that you have to commit to the area to work here as it's not really commutable from large population centres.
I won't be staying on for 5 years because I can draw my pension soon, and that'll be it. I love my school and teaching the kids. To be fair to SLT they do listen to me, but I am always constructive with criticism.
The thing that I hate is the lack of money - we're in one of the worst funded LAs and the constant tinkering with the bloody curriculum by people who think the 1950s were the epitome of learning. Yes Michael fucking Gove, you. Why kids need to know what a sodding fronted adverbial is, I have no clue. My older DD has a First & Masters from Cambridge but doesn't know. Her grammar is excellent because she reads widely and asks questions.
I taught in a primary school alongside my main job for 2 afternoons per week until July. Again, teachers worked damn hard. TAs were brilliant but there was no money for anything. In my 1st year there, I taught a class of 42 y6s with no TA. It was a nightmare. There was no point asking for specialist equipment because there was no money. I managed to get £18 to buy some boomwhackers - my only spending in 3 years.
To the poster who told us to leave so new teachers could be recruited, she is deluded. Who the hell does she think is going to mentor these new colleagues? Very few people walk into teaching with excellent behaviour management; it's something you pick up, just like knowing how to handle students with specific needs. I help train new teachers because I can do those things at the same time as teaching the rest of the class.
If people really cared about education, they would never vote Conservative. Let people who understand schools, teachers and children run things.