Our offer to you

We know that our success as an organisation depends largely upon the commitment, energy and enthusiasm of the people working here. That’s why we strive to provide excellent working conditions and policies for our staff. As well as a fair and competitive salary and a variety of professional learning opportunities, there are many other benefits to which EAS employees may be entitled, such as generous leave, local government pension scheme and secondment opportunities. There are opportunities to progress whilst working in a dynamic, fair and flexible environment.

What we offer:

Competitive salaries: We offer competitive and transparent salaries that reward the hard work of our staff. We are a Living Wage employer. Salaries are aligned to either Local Government terms and conditions or the Soulbury terms and conditions depending on job role, allowing for annual pay progression in line with the relevant pay scale and with national pay awards applied.

Annual leave: We offer generous annual leave in addition to the statutory eight bank holidays per year and an additional 3 extra statutory days between Christmas and New Year. Annual leave is calculated according to your length of service:

• up to 5 years continuous local government service: 25 days
• after 5 years continuous local government service: 30 days
• after 10 years continuous local government service: 33 days

Flexible working arrangements: We are committed to helping our employees achieve work/life balance whilst still be responsive to meeting changing needs of the service. We operate flexible working policies and many employees benefit from flexible and agile working arrangements such as hybrid working and a flexible approach to working hours.

Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme: New employees are automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme. Contributions range from 5.5% to 12.5% of pensionable pay based on earnings, which are deducted from your salary before tax. If you are transferring from another local government employer your service will be aggregated. A new employee may also be able to transfer their benefits from other schemes.

You have the right to opt out of the pension scheme if you do not wish to be a member.

Access to continuous professional development: We offer a range of professional learning for our staff and the emphasis on development ensures that team members are equipped with the skills needed to do develop within their roles and beyond. The EAS offers tailored professional learning to develop staff. All new members of staff receive an induction and regular performance development reviews enabling them to identify professional development needs.

Local government service: If an employee has previous continuous service with an organisation covered by the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government) Modification Order 1999 this will be included in calculating the entitlement to:

• annual leave
• occupational sickness scheme
• occupational maternity scheme
• maternity support scheme
• adoption leave
• redundancy payment

Employee benefits: We offer a range of benefits for employees including:

• Vectis – a benefits website that includes online discounts and vouchers
• Tusker car lease scheme (salary sacrifice)

Employee wellbeing: We offer a range of mechanisms to support employee wellbeing:

• Free access to confidential advice and support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Information and advice in relation to family, personal, debt or workplace issues can be given by telephone or online.
• Counselling service
• Occupational health service
• Free eye tests to any employee who uses display screen equipment as a significant part of their normal work.

We are an are equal opportunity employer with policies and practices that ensure no person is discriminated against for reasons of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.

Vision and values of the EAS Our vision and values underpin everything we do in our day-to-day practices and interactions with our key partners, the wider educational community and our staff.

Our Vision

Supporting and enabling schools and education settings to thrive as effective learning organisations, learning from each other and the wider educational community.

Our Core Values

Integrity: Doing what is right and delivering what we promise by providing a high support and high challenge environment.

Innovation: We promise an innovative culture and attitude. We will challenge and aim for excellence in all that we do.

Collaboration: We value everyone and work together to achieve our vision.

The EAS is a separate legal entity although the five councils have overall control of the organisation. The service is wholly owned by the five local authorities and operates on a not-for-profit basis. The company board comprises the Director of the EAS and Elected Member representatives from the partner councils who do not hold the portfolio of education. The executive function for education in each council has formed the Joint Executive Group (JEG) to commission services from the EAS on behalf of the five local authorities.

If you're searching for your next education job, please get in touch. You'll be working for a great employer and be part of a friendly, helpful team. We're always interested to hear from enthusiastic, committed education professionals - send us your CV now via our Talent Pool and detail what sort of role you're looking for. By joining our Talent Pool we'll know you're interested in working here when the right vacancy comes up.