Hibernia College

INTO & the Teaching Profession

Information for Education Graduates

17th May 2018

Eimear Allen &

Ciara Sotscheck

Finding your Feet

What is the INTO?

Employment Prospects

Salary

Pay Equality

Registration with Teaching Council

Probation

Vetting

Appointments

Largest teachers’ trade union in Ireland

Over 43,000 members north and south

INTO Officials in Head Office negotiate on behalf of members

INTO Branches all over the country

INTO Staff Rep in every school

INTO Structure

Democratic – Run by members Annual Congress makes policy

• Quality advice and guidance to members- Employment rights- Legal advice - Handling complaints- Salary & Pensions- Legal protection- Equality

• Negotiate salary and conditions• Member benefits and services • Campaign for primary education - Jobs, class size• Communicate current Information - Website, InTouch,

Social media & E-zines

INTO Services

Guidance for Teachers Appointment procedures

Employment contracts

Duties and responsibilities

Staff and BOM relations

Positive parent-teacher relations

Discipline

Complaints/Allegations Against Teachers

Child protection issues

First Aid/Administration of Medicines in Schools

Health and Safety

Leave entitlements

Financial – salary, pensions, holiday pay

Union involvement

Opportunity to meet colleagues and network, to share best practice and professional insights

Professional development – conference workshops, summer courses, training seminars

Family involvement – Intergenerational solidarity

Effect change & safeguard professionalism - staff rep, branch meetings, conferences and Congress

Appointment Procedures

Employment

Vetting

Salary

Probation/Induction

Current Issues for newly qualified teachers

Employment Status

Permanent/CID

Fixed Term – normally one year contracts

Career Break

Secondment

Temporary positions due to Job Sharing

Substitute – casual/ non-casual

Sick Leave

Parental Leave

Maternity Leave

Routes to Permanency

Supplementary Panel – 3 years – all service counts

CID – Contract of Indefinite Duration – in excess of 2 years in same school with a viable post in the third year

Open Competition

Benefits of permanency:-

job/financial security

career breaks

secondment

Appointment Procedures

Fixed Term >24 weeks - Advertised

Fixed Term <24 weeks – Not advertised

Teachers must be fully qualified, registered and vetted

Job websites - educationposts.ie; staffroom.ie

Appointment Procedures

Made by Board of Management

Open competition

Advert – online and in national newspapers

Selection Board

Assessment of Applicants

Interviews

Appointment by B.O.M.

Notifies successful candidate/ notifies other candidates

Employment Issues

Budget 2017 – 900+ extra jobs in the system

Budget 2018 – 600+ extra jobs in the system

Special Ed., increasing population, decrease in class size

Shortage of substitute teachers

Vetting

Registration with the Teaching Council

SubSearchhttp://subsearch.into.ie/

INTO SubSearch is designed to help teachers find substitute work

How it works:

Subs register their profiles and availability on the site;

Principals can search for registered subs in their area.

Teachers must be registered with Teaching Council to register for SubSearch

SubSearch mobile is available for your smartphone

Vetting

• You cannot work in a school without Garda vetting

• In the calendar year that you are due to graduate you can apply to be vetted on the Teaching Council’s website (e-vetting)

• Will speed up your registration process when you qualify

• Garda vetting for teaching practice placements is not sufficient to engage in substitute work

Substitute Work – Unregistered Teacher

• You can engage in substitute work as an unregistered person:

– B.Eds (anyone without a teaching council number)

5 day rule applies - can sub for five days and then must have a gap of a day

– Post grads who are registered with the TC under ‘Further Ed’ will not be restricted to the 5 day rule

• Current unqualified daily rate is €127.03 + 15.70 = €142.73 (Rate will increase again in Oct 2018)

• Vetting is a matter for the employer

Substitute Work – Registered Teacher

• Abundance of substitute work available

• Valuable in getting known by schools - often leads to longer term employment

• Qualified substitute rate increasing in October 2018

• Current daily rate: €165.96 + €20.51 = €186.47

• All substitute work counts towards increments (moving up the pay scale) and service for Supplementary Panel

Registering with the Teaching CouncilRoute 1 – Primary. Initial reg. fee of €90

Requirements:

Qualifications

Vetting

Annual re-registration is €65 p.a

www.teachingcouncil.ie

Teachers can claim a tax credit for their TC registration fee and also, a tax credit for flat rate expenses of €518

Registering with the Teaching CouncilReps from the TC generally visit the

Colleges of Education in Spring

Important – you need to have your Teaching Council registration prior to taking up a temporary or permanent job. Without this you can not be paid.

Subbing – 5 day rule applies without registration

Salary

Primary and Post Primary paid on same scale

From 1 Feb 2012 start on Point 1 of the scale

Graduate on 1 September 2018 will start on €35,958

Rising to €36,318 on 1 October 2018

Increasing up to €70,795 (Over 27 years)

Paid every second Thursday

Salary

Schools will input sub days worked for payment on the Online Claims System

Substitute teachers will always be at least two weeks behind in salary due to the early closure for substitute claims through the OLCS

Substitute teachers

Casual rate – if you have worked <40 days in school year

Non-casual rate – after you have worked more than 40 days in a school year

Non-casual sub teachers entitled to paid leave e.g. - sick leave, maternity leave, wedding leave, family illness leave etc. Can also apply to take EPV days.

Fixed term teachers – holiday pay

If a teacher takes up a temporary contract before the first working day in November they will be paid until August 31st.

If a teachers takes up a temporary contract after the first working day in November, they may be entitled to retrospective holiday pay for the summer if they secure a further fixed term contract for the following school year which does not end any earlier than a year from the start date of the previous contract

Pay Equality INTO priority

How to effect change? Publicity, lobbying, legal challenge, negotiations, possible industrial action

Pay Equality Project Team

Negotiated improvements –

2012, HRA, LRA

Pay equality is a core INTO

trade union principle

Probation

As of September 2018, only for teachers working in a mainstream setting in a school of 16 or less teachers

Probation -100 school days or 2 periods of 50 consecutive school days

Professional competence verified by Inspector visits

Must attend 10 NIPT induction seminars

Register through Limerick Education Centre -www.lec.ie

Droichead Change of focus from probation to induction, and

from evaluation to support

Supported by Professional Support Team which may consist of principal and a mentor

Post of a minimum of 60 consecutive school days

Must attend 3 NIPT induction seminars and complete 1 professional learning activity

Apply by sending Form DR 1 to the Teaching Council

Droichead Droichead is being introduced on a phased

basis:

• 2017/2018: teachers in SEN settings & schools with 24+ mainstream teachers

• 2018/2019: teachers in SEN settings & schools with 16+ teachers

• 2019/2020: teachers in SEN settings & schools with administrative principals

• 2020/2021: only route of induction for all NQTs

Probation/Induction Induction seminars in local Education

Centres

Practical, classroom based workshops:

Planning and Preparation;

Classroom Management;

Assessment;

Curricular areas.

www.teacherinduction.ie

INTO membershipNewly Qualified Teachers

Sub rate

– €25 per annum

Temporary/Permanent

– First 3 months free

– €13.35 per fortnight

Subject to change..

Join Online http://www.into.ie/ROI/AboutINTO/JoinINTO

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