Trafford Services for Education

FREE TRAINING - Liquid Logic / Controcc - Early Help Module

Trafford Council are offering two drop-in training sessions to any school staff who are carrying out early help and are interested in learning about the Early Help Module on the Liquid Logic system for the purposes of information sharing and multi-agency working. The sessions are being held Trafford Town Hall: Friday 14th June - 11:00-13:00 in Training Room 2 Thursday 14th November - 13:00-15:00 in Training Room 2 The sessions provide an ideal chance to drop by and ask any questions you might have about the system, as well as to practice using the system with direct support from our Performance and PBI teams. Please note if you do not currently have access but would like to attend you must complete the user access agreement in advance - and send to: liquidlogicsupport@trafford.gov.uk Parking is available at Tesco Stretford for upto 3 hours.

HR Breakfast Briefings - Summer Term

Are next breakfast briefings are available to book online - date 17th May 2019 or 17th June 2019 The sessions are aimed at school leaders / managers and also any in house school HR professionals. Programme: 8.00 – arrival/tea/coffee and networking (please note the Town Hall does not open until 8am) 8.30 – Meeting opens - Dealing with requests for special leave (including compassionate leave and leave for holidays in term time) 9.15 – Managing short term sickness absence and the benefits of using return to work interviews Additional session - for non PARIS schools only; 10.00 - Briefing on PARIS - including the benefits of going through PARIS job evaluation, and how the process works. 11.00 - close Please book online

Jobs bulletin - 6 May 2019

Please find attached. If you are interested in any of the vcncacies please contact the school directly.

Updated NJC Salary Scales 2018-19

Please find attached details of the nationally agreed NJC pay spine points from April 2019, which were agreed in April 2018 as part of a 2 year pay deal. These are nationally agreed pay points, so any school which employs support staff on NJC terms and conditions should adopt these agreed points. If schools use Trafford payroll then these pay points will be automatically applied for any NJC staff. For those schools which use external payroll providers they will need to ensure that their pay points have been updated accordingly. There are also ongoing local negotiations between Trafford Council and the Trade Unions regarding proposed changes to the NJC pay banding, as a result of the year 2 proposal that has created a new pay spine. These negotiations are almost concluded and the new pay spine will be communicated to you as soon as possible. If you have any queries regarding the above please email workforcestrategy@trafford.gov.uk

Office Managers Meeting - 7th May 2019

The next Office Managers meeting is on Tuesday 7th May 1.30pm At Trafford Town Hall There is limited parking available at Trafford Town Hall, but three hours of free paring is available at Tesco Stretford which is a 2 minute walk away. In brief we will be discussing: SLA's update Free School Meals Eligibility Administration (with thanks to Joanne Dunning, Finance Manager at St. Hilda's, who is assisting us with this item) GMSS payroll and Pensions GMSS Stop Gap HR Consultancy Ground Maintenance Following the meeting John Donnellan (ICT); Donna Jones (GMSS payroll and pensions); Gemma Pitts (Stop Gap) and Sarah Mousawi (HR Consultancy) will be available to answer any questions you may have questions. Please book online Many Thanks Anne

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Supporting Outstanding Futures

Trafford Services for Education provide a range of professional services to support to Schools, Academies, Early Years settings, Independent Schools, FE and HE Colleges across the North West including the regions of Trafford, Tameside, Stockport, Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Wigan, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Warrington.

These services include Finance, ICT, Governor Services, Cleaning, Legal Services, Health, Safety & Wellbeing, HR Consultancy, Payroll, Pensions, Recruitment & Resourcing support, Catering, Pest Control, Education Welfare, Careers, Off- Site Visit Management, Music, Information Governance, Audit and Assurance, Behaviour and Attendance, Admission Appeals, School Improvement, Education Psychology, English as an Additional Language, Stop Gap Supply Staff, Procurement and Free School Meal Eligibility Administration.