We're an education recruitment agency with a difference

About Us

We are a teaching agency based in Birmingham who supply school staff to primary, secondary and SEN schools across the West Midlands, Staffordshire and beyond. We support headteachers, teachers, classroom support and non-teaching staff in finding their perfect school and offer day-to-day, temporary and permanent work. Our priority is to make your job search as straightforward as possible by providing you with support and guidance each step of the way from our initial telephone call to placement.

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Why does Smile make you smile?

The reasons why people choose to Smile Education as their teaching agency

Supportive

Dedicated

Professional

Friendly

Reliable

Roles we recruit for

We work with primary, secondary and SEN schoolss across the West and East Midlands and help them to find the right staff for their school. We connect schools with headteachers, teachers, TAs and non-teaching staff to ensure that all students have the best school experience possible.

Leaders

Our school leadership department works closely with a number of schools and will work with you to find your dream SLT position. We recruit Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers, Assistant Headteachers and SENCOs. We can also offer you and your school a place on our safer recruitment training course or, if you prefer, run a private session.

Teachers

We can help you finding supply and permanent teaching roles in the West Midlands and Staffordshire. Registering with Smile doesn’t just give you access to exclusive jobs, we also offer a number of training opportunities and social events throughout the year.

Teaching Assistants

In addition to teachers, we also work with teaching assistants and HTLAs to find them work in primary, secondary and SEN schools. Joining our supply teaching agency also gives you access to a number of benefits including exclusive jobs, interview support and training courses.

SEN Teachers & TAs

If you have or would like to gain experience working in special educational needs schools, we can support you with that. We work with a number of SEN schools across the East and West Midlands and support children with physical, emotional and behavioural needs. We also offer all of our SEN staff Team Teach training - a qualification required by most special needs schools.

Cover Supervisors

Interested in teaching but not undertaken a PGCE? Give cover supervising a try. All you need is a degree and some experience working with children. We’ll provide the rest through our cover supervisor training course where you’ll learn all about safeguarding and how to manage a classroom.

Nursery Nurses

We support a number of West and East Midlands based nurseries with their staffing and recruit nursery nurses, room leaders and managers. We also offer all of our early years staff the option to undertake our Emergency Paediatric First Aid course - a compulsory requirement in many nurseries.

Other School Roles

We don’t just provide support in the classroom. We also recruit for a number of non-teaching staff including school caretakers, administrators, cleaners, kitchen staff, lunchtime supervisors, exam invigilators and more! Find more about our non-teaching roles and our process for registering with just a few clicks.

Residential Roles

It’s not just schools we work with, we also work with a number of children’s residential care homes, respite centres and schools in the Midlands. We can find work for support workers, deputy managers and registered managers. Learn more about our residential division here.