ADVERTORIAL
New Integration Helps Schools and Trusts Tackle Recruitment Challenges Head-On
“The reality is, education hiring isn’t like corporate hiring,” says Emma Slater, Head of Product at The Access Group. “You’re working to tight timescales, navigating complex safeguarding and data rules, and trying to hire brilliant staff in an incredibly competitive market. We knew our customers needed something better – and now they have it.”
Saving Time, Cutting Costs – and Improving Outcomes Adopters of SchoolRecruiter are saving 3–5 hours a week on admin and seeing up to double the number of applications. Now, Access Education customers can choose to integrate SchoolRecruiter into their existing HR and payroll system – streamlining recruitment from start to finish.
For greater reach, Eteach’s job board and marketing add-on boosts visibility across digital channels, including paid social and enhanced listings.
With everything connected, schools benefit from consistent data, fewer errors, and stronger compliance – all within a centralised, secure system. It also enables better workforce planning, with reliable metrics covering the entire employee lifecycle.
Built-in dashboards track source of hire, time-to-fill, and ROI – giving schools and trusts the insight to refine and improve hiring outcomes.
Putting Trusts in Control A
ccess Education is supporting UK schools and trusts with a new integration that’s set to transform how education teams attract, hire, and onboard talent.
The well-known HR and payroll provider has joined forces with SchoolRecruiter (part of Eteach Group) – the leading Applicant Tracking System (ATS) built specifically for schools – to offer an all-in-one solution that addresses one of the biggest headaches facing school leaders today: recruitment.
Teacher shortages continue to challenge schools across the UK, with more than 40,000 teachers leaving the profession in 2023 alone. At the same time, application numbers are falling, and many schools are struggling to fill posts.
Access Education’s new integration aims to help. Already supporting over 9,000 UK schools and trusts, Access Education provides a complete people management solution – from recruitment and onboarding, right through to HR, payroll, absence management and professional development. Now, with the latest addition to its platform – full integration with SchoolRecruiter – Access is expanding even further to support the very start of the employee journey: attracting and hiring the right people.
A Recruitment Tool Designed Exclusively for Education SchoolRecruiter is built for the unique and complex needs of the education sector, where compliance, safeguarding and fast-moving term dates all play a critical role.
Unlike generic ATS tools, it allows school HR teams to:
• Access a community of over 2.7m education jobseekers • Distribute jobs across over 50 education specific and generalist job platforms including the DFE Teaching Vacancies site as well as social media.
• Offer a full digital application journey perfect for the modern jobseeker
• Centralise all hiring activity in one place – from applicant tracking to interviews
• Hire with confidence with all KCSIE Guidelines and compliance built-in • Automate reference checks and onboarding workflows • Build talent pools of future candidates for hard-to-fill roles • Access key hiring insights and make data-driven decisions
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For multi-academy trusts, the integration offers ultimate visibility. SchoolRecruiter enables central teams to manage recruitment across multiple schools, share pipelines, and maintain consistent processes and branding – all without removing the autonomy of individual schools. It’s this flexibility that makes the tool so valuable for trusts looking to simplify and standardise their approach without starting over.
Built for Today’s Challenges
With teacher shortages unlikely to ease soon, the teams at Access Education and SchoolRecruiter believe that recruitment needs to be high on every school and trust’s agenda – and that having the right tools in place will make all the difference.
“Schools need to rapidly become online marketing experts when it comes to recruitment,” says Rhys Howells, Managing Director at Eteach Group. “It’s not just about managing applications — it’s about reaching the right people across multiple channels. Through our digital advertising network, including our job board, social media and broadcasting partners, we help schools and trusts amplify their job adverts and stand out in a crowded market.”
To find out more about how the SchoolRecruiter integration works – and see how it could support your school or trust – visit
uwww.theaccessgroup.com/recruitment-for-schools or speak to the team at Access Education today.
For more information about SchoolRecruiter (part of Eteach Group) please visit u
www.schoolrecruiter.com
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