Restructure announced

[cherrypied]

So it looks like there will be redundancies.

has anyone been through this?

I a bit sad as I love my school as do many other staff.

I have. Support staff role. It is a stressful process, unfortunately...

If you want to stay and it gets to skills matrix bit...work hard on that.
Also, unions should be involved.

Yes meeting with unions scheduled. Will have a look at a skills matrix

There will be a consultation and opportunity for people to take voluntary redundancy I imagine. If that doesn't sort restructuring out (didn't with us) then skills matrix provided. It depends at what stage you are at/ process being taken to whether you can look at skills matrix. At our school (been through this twice) there were issues with the matrix noted during consultation and unions helped with this (Unison for us) and parts of matrix changed.

You should have a load of paperwork emailed to you. Look very carefully at the reasoning etc. The matrix should be in that bumpf.
Good luck.

Never been through it myself but over my career I’ve seen many restructures which has been a worrying time for all.

I’ve seen support staff roles removed or changed and I’ve also seen SLT and middle leadership structures change.

The most recent one was at my last school and the removal of HoDs and the introduction of Curriculum Leaders - the school went from 12 HODs to 6 CL’s and they had responsibility for multiple subjects. At first there was a lot of scrutiny as the workload would be intense - in the first year the changes took place, CL’s had teaching timetables until they all complained that they never had time to complete their actual role. The following year none of the CL’s had a timetable. It worked better that way.

Staff had the choice to take voluntary redundancy which a couple of them did as they were approaching retirement.
One stepped down to become a class teacher and a couple of others moved onto new roles.

I did in early days of teaching. They somehow found that the skills matrix showed the expensive, older, less malleable teachers were the ones who were not needed. The cheap NQTs and just out of NQT teachers all stayed. Make what you want of that.

I'm so sorry you're going through
this. Good luck.

Sounds very dodgy @Lancrelady80
Our skills matrix had a very clear points system on each section. But all skills matrixes will vary and there were some sections that might be more open to fluffy interpretation and when trying to score myself it was those I hovered over nervously...
On the latest skills matrix (that I was not part of) the support staff under threat of redundancy managed to get some sections altered with Union support.