86+ teaching posts in my county

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Gloucestershire.

I have never seen anything like this. It's incredible.
We've had to advertise twice, and fingers crossed, we'll be able to recruit this time round.

How are other counties finding recruitment at the moment?

North east. Struggling to recruit. Science mfl English.

Hoping this is the same in my area! I’m feeling a bit stuck being on UPS3 and with my qualification being for a different phase than the one I’m currently teaching/looking for.

Same here for science. Had to advertise twice and got one applicant, who fortunately was OK. We were reminiscing the days when there would be 25 applicants.

Opposite here in Scotland. About 2 permanent primary teaching jobs across the whole county. NQTs get a job for a year, but very little chance of getting anything permanent after that.

Is the system better in Scotland - workload, etc?
Must be stressful if you are job-seeking.

In some ways it's better. There are no SATs, workload doesn't seem to be so bad and we don't have to supervise pupils at any break times. But the Curriculum for Excellence is dire and there's a lot of Scottish Government-led policies like the new sex ed one which have caused a lot of disagreement.
I've a friend who has been qualified for 5 years now and still no prospect of a permanent job any time soon.

I'm currently looking but stymied by my grade. All but 3 of the just shy of 90 primary jobs in my area specify rqt or mps. I feel like i am stuck in my current academy hell hole until bullied out.

Just out of interest I looked at the Gloucestershire vacancies - I'd love to work somewhere lovely like that. Can schools specify what pay grade they want as some of them seemed very poor. In Scotland, jobs are open to anyone.

They can specify mps, rqt or mps+ups

@phlebasconsidered Sorry I've no idea what any of that means - we only have a scale with incremental points on it. I think it only has 6 rungs from NQT to the top point so you move up fairly quickly but are then stuck at the top for ever unless you want to go for promotion.

Yes - MPS, UPS etc as PP said.
In our case, we're a small school with a correspondingly small budget and an aging staff who are happy so not moving on (including me!). We can't afford another UPS person so we've specified Main Scale.

Main pay scale, upper pay scale or rqt at the start of the main pay scale. Which is the most popular for obvious reasons

Yup, there's 75 jobs for my specialism within a 30 mile radius of my house. Some of the jobs are now on their third and even fourth re-advertisement. Although I definitely remember it being worse last year, I remember it being over 100 around deadline date for resignation.