Vision for Education

Vision for Education: education recruitment across the UK

Vision for Education is an education recruitment agency that supplies teachers, support staff and leadership personnel to schools, colleges and other alternative provisions. Its activity covers both temporary supply work and permanent placements, and it presents itself as working nationwide through a network of local branches.

The agency describes its purpose as "making a positive impact in education" and frames its work around matching schools with teaching and support professionals, while offering candidates a route into temporary and permanent positions.

Recruitment services for schools and colleges

For employers, the agency sets out a range of recruitment routes:

• Supply cover for day-to-day and longer-term staffing needs.
• Permanent recruitment.
• Executive search for leadership roles.
• Tuition services.
• A Managed Service Partnership and a Vision Strategic Partnership for schools seeking a broader staffing arrangement.

Schools can submit a vacancy through a dedicated form, and the site also provides a school portal. The agency lists safeguarding among the areas it addresses in its work with schools, alongside sections on why choose us and making a positive impact.

Work for candidates: supply, permanent and leadership roles

On the candidate side, Vision for Education advertises job search tools, registration, job alerts and a supply staff portal. Its listings cover several profiles:

• Teachers, including primary, KS2, science and early career teachers.
• Teaching assistants, including unqualified, trainee, higher level and SEND teaching assistants.
• Cover supervisors and other support staff.
• Tutors, including 1:1, SEND, SEMH and outreach tutors.
• Support workers in mental health and SEND settings.
• Leadership roles.

The agency also runs an ECT pool and addresses aspiring teaching assistants and aspiring teachers, and it explains its registration process and pay arrangements. Training and events, a library and a recommend-us section complete its candidate-facing offer.

Branch network

The agency operates through local branches and invites schools and candidates to contact the branch corresponding to their area. The branches named on the site are Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cornwall, Essex, Huddersfield, Hull, Kent, Leeds, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester, Midlands, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Preston, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, Swansea, Teesside and London, alongside a separate Permanent Team.

Vacancies and pay ranges shown in the listings

At the time of writing this profile, the site displayed 1,005 jobs and a featured selection of vacancies. These included teaching assistant, primary teacher, supply teacher, tutor and support worker roles in locations such as York, Hull, Scarborough, Sheffield, Manchester, Chesterfield, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and London. Contract types ranged from full-time and part-time to homeworking for some tutoring positions.

The advertised rates in that selection ranged from around £14 per hour for some teaching assistant and support roles to £30–£35 per hour for tutors, with daily rates for teachers between roughly £122 and £232 and annual salaries of £23,000–£41,333 for certain positions. These figures correspond to the listings shown when this profile was drafted and may vary by role and location.

Registration and contact

Candidates can register and upload a CV, set up job alerts and manage their account through the site. Schools can get in touch with their local branch or use the dedicated vacancy form. The agency also provides channels for payroll and invoicing queries, safeguarding concerns, compliments and complaints, and media enquiries.