Overseas Trained Teacher
As an Overseas Trained Teacher, (OTT), you need to have the equivalent to either a British Bachelor of Education, or a degree, (preferably in a national curriculum area – this is mandatory for Secondary school teaching), plus a teaching qualification, in order to teach in Primary schools (4-11 years) or Secondary schools (11-18years) in England.
Overseas Trained Teacher In Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Switzerland or European Economic Area Countries.
Terrence Ross: Overseas Trained Teacher. Sidney Stringer Secondary School. "Coventry is a diverse an welcoming city for an OTT. It is similar to working in a village environment within a large city".
If you have qualified as a teacher in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Switzerland or a European Economic Area Country, you may be eligible for qualified teacher status (QTS) in England without any assessment. Accordingly, you are advised to contact the General Teaching Council for England (GTC), for advice by telephoning 0370 0010 308 (Option 5), or by viewing their web site www.gtce.org.uk.
Once QTS is confirmed, you may start to apply for specific advertised posts. For current teaching opportunities within Coventry, use this link to access our Job Search.
Schools also advertise in the Coventry Evening Telegraph (Thursday) and some posts are advertised in other publications such as the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
In addition, you may wish to register for permanent work within the authority, on Coventry’s experienced qualified teacher recruitment database. This will enable your details to be circulated to all Coventry schools. Further information can be accessed by using this link experienced qualified teacher recruitment database.
Due to the expansion of the European Economic Area, the Government has introduced a scheme whereby if you are from one of the European Economic Area States, which joined on or after May 2004, you must register with the Home Office for the first 12 months of your stay. Should this apply, registration forms can be obtained by telephoning 0870 521 0024.
Details of additional Government web sites and help lines, which may be of interest, is available be visiting our Useful Contacts section.
Coventry’s teacher recruitment team is here to help and can be contacted by phoning our teacher recruitment help line on 024 7683 2121, or by email on jobs@coventry.gov.uk or by writing to the following address:
Teachers Recruitment
HR Recruitment Service
Room 107
1st Floor Civic Centre 2
Earl Street
Coventry
CV1 5RR
Other Overseas Trained Teachers
For all other overseas-trained teachers, although you may apply for teaching posts in England, you would be deemed as an unqualified teacher and thus paid on the unqualified teacher’s pay scale. You will only be paid on the qualified teacher’s pay scale in England, once Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is gained in this country.
Initially, you may wish to contact the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), Overseas Trained Teacher helpline on 44 (0) 1245 454321 or email ott@tdainfo.co.uk, for advice regarding your qualifications UK equivalence for QTS in England.
You also need the equivalents to the British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), in Maths and English (and Science for primary teaching if you were born on or after 1st September 1979), at Grade C level or above. Contact the National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC) to check your qualifications UK equivalence.
When you are aware of your qualifications equivalence, you are then able to apply for specific advertised posts, indicating that you are an overseas trained teacher and hence wish to be employed on an unqualified basis, and that you are currently investigating how to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in England.
For current teaching opportunities within Coventry please use this link Job Search. Please note the vacancies advertised on our web site are for teachers that have QTS in this country. However, it may be used as a tool to approach schools that have vacancies you are interested in. Schools also advertise in the Coventry Evening Telegraph (Thursday) and some posts are advertised in other publications such as the Times Educational Supplement (TES).
Once you have been offered a post, the school may need to apply for a work permit. They will also require a criminal record check to be undertaken, together with other pre-employment checks, as is the case for all teachers applying for teaching positions in England.
Having begun your position in school, you may then apply to the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), to obtain Qualified Teacher Status, (QTS). By calling the Overseas Trained Teacher (OTT) helpline number 0845 600 0991, advice and information is available on the most appropriate route to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS). If you decide not to gain QTS straight away, you are allowed to work for up to four years on an unqualified teacher basis. After this period, you would have to gain qualified teacher status in order to continue teaching.
For further information about teaching in the UK, log on to the Training and Development Agency for Schools web site www.tda.gov.uk, which provides full information on being a teacher in the UK.
Details of additional Government web sites and help lines, which may be of interest, is available by accessing our useful contacts section.
Coventry’s teacher recruitment team is here to help and can be contacted by phoning our teacher recruitment help line on 024 7683 2121, or by email on jobs@coventry.gov.uk or by writing to the following address:
Teachers Recruitment
HR Recruitment Service
Room 107
1st Floor Civic Centre 2
Earl Street
Coventry
CV1 5RR
