Schools Mutual Services

Schools Mutual Services is a not-for-profit recruitment agency specialising in education staffing solutions for schools across the United Kingdom. The company provides comprehensive recruitment services including supply teaching, teaching assistants, learning support workers, and school support staff placements. Schools Mutual Services operates on a mission to support tomorrow's generation by connecting qualified educators and support professionals with schools that need them, whilst maintaining a commitment to fair pay, professional development, and candidate wellbeing.

The agency specialises exclusively in the education and secondary education sectors, with a particular focus on Catholic schools and primary education settings. Schools Mutual Services places candidates in roles spanning supply teaching, invigilating, learning management, site assistance, kitchen support, and food technology positions. The company works with schools to understand their specific staffing requirements and matches candidates based on skills, preferences, and travel considerations, ensuring quality placements that benefit both educators and educational institutions.

Schools Mutual Services operates three regional hubs serving the North East, South East, and West Midlands, with significant presence in cities including Newcastle, Oxford, and Birmingham. The agency serves numerous locations across these regions, from Bishop Auckland and Sunderland in the North East to Henley-on-Thames and Swindon in the South East, and Dudley and surrounding areas in the West Midlands. Schools choose Schools Mutual Services for their reliability, rapid response times, consistency in delivering quality staff, and genuine commitment to understanding both candidate preferences and school needs, with many schools reporting that SMS is their first point of call for all supply staffing requirements.