Overseas Teacher

Recruitment
Service

A summary of the Service

Pivot Point Services,
84 Baker Street,
Northampton,
NN2 6DJ
email: n.ayieko@pivotpointsupplyltd.co.uk
 Executive Summary

The Company
Pivot Point Services is a relatively new and vibrant company that provides auxiliary support
to educational establishments across the UK. We have been in the business of supplying
highly trained and reliable support staff to special needs schools in the South West of
England for just over two and half years. Currently the parent company is run by one
director who is based at the Company's headquarters in Northampton UK. The company
has a regional office in Bristol, UK and the subsidiary office in Kisumu, Kenya, identified as
strategic locations for the recruitment of locally-based talent. Each of the subsidiary offices
are run by highly qualified and efficient Human Resource teams.

Our Strategy:
To be a leader in the auxiliary education industry by providing enhanced services with a
close client-service provider relationship by providing quality services that meet our clients'
needs in real time. We believe in not only listening to our customers' needs but to treating
them with the uniqueness that each deserves.

We aspire to integrate honesty, integrity and business ethics into all aspects of our business
in support of our target of growing through innovation and invention. Finally, by building a
good reputation in the field of auxiliary educational services, we hope to become a key
player in the field with notable excellence at the core of our services.

The Ownership
The parent company is structured as a sole proprietorship but with a subsidiary in Kenya
governed by a board of two directors.

Noella Ayieko (Managing Director): The parent company managing director comes with a
wealth of nineteen years in the education sector both at international levels and within the
UK.

Martha Joseph (Finance Director): A retired banker with a wealth of experience in hedge
fund management and financial markets in the greater Eastern Africa region.
The Service

Pivot Point Education Services endeavours to provide our clients with highly qualified,
ambitious and enthusiastic STEM teachers from outside the EEA through the Home Office
immigration programme for Shortage Occupational Skills (SOL) Tier 2 Visa route.

The key roles of Pivot Point Education Service will be to source talent from outside the EEA,
assess their qualifications and experience and then present their profiles to prospective
employers. Each client will have the opportunity to select their ideal candidates for
interviews from our pool of pre-vetted teaching staff. The advantage of using our service as
opposed to the direct recruitment of non-EEA teaching staff by our client-schools is that all
our selected teachers will have undergone a rigorous recruitment process to:

• Ensure that all our candidates will have been given criminal clearance by the
National Police in their home countries.

• The candidates’ qualifications will have been checked for validity in their home
countries by contacting the awarding bodies, directly.

• Their qualifications have been officially verified by the Home Office recognised
organisation NARIC for comparability to the UK academic standards

• All the two referees provided by the candidates will contacted directly to verify their
references.

• All successful candidates will be given support in processing the necessary travel
paper work and in settling into the UK thereby ensuring a smooth transition.

• All successful candidates will be provided with our bespoke one month’s adaptation
support plan which ensures that they familiarise themselves with the pedagogical
approaches of the National Curriculum and obtain a clear understanding of the
Teacher Standards thereby easing their adaptation into teaching in the UK.

The advantages of an occupation or job being included on the SOL, therefore,

are that sponsors do not have to carry out a resident labour market test and

migrants are not subject to the £35,000 salary threshold if they wish to apply for

settlement. Additionally, jobs and occupations on the SOL receive prioritisation

in the event of the monthly Tier 2 limit being reached.

(Migratory Advisory Committee Report, Jan 2017, page 15)

 The role of the client-school

We anticipate that our Client-schools will search for their ideal candidate from our
talented-teacher pool and after identifying, interviewing and selecting their successful
candidate undertake to:

• Apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) from the Home Office to support the
candidate’s immigration into the UK.

• Negotiate a fair salary award to the successful candidate, based on the

Unqualified Teacher Pay Spine, while taking into consideration their experience.

• Endeavour to support the successful candidate in their quest to gain Qualified

Teacher Status in the UK through the salaried route at a time agreeable to both
the candidate and the Client.

Table 5.2: Total volume of used Certificates of Sponsorship, 2009-2016

SOC Code 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016*
2314 - Secondary 1,014 657 448 489 397 437 615 145
In-Country 649 432 291 358 232 194 201 73
Out-of-Country 365 225 157 131 165 243 414 72
2315 - Nursery
and Primary 402 278 188 211 228 208 246 102
In-Country 246 171 117 121 130 86 79 23
Out-of-Country 156 107 71 90 98 122 167 79
2316 -
Special 53 40 42 45 39 46 25 20
Needs
In-Country 25 26 18 28 21 28 12 9
Out-of-Country 28 14 24 17 18 18 13 11
Total 1,469 975 678 745 664 691 887 267
In-Country 920 629 426 507 383 308 292 105
Out-of-Country 549 346 252 238 281 383 595 162
Source: Home Office Management Information (June 2016).
Note: *The values for 2016 cover only the period up to June
2016.
The role of Pivot Point Education Services

To generate our talented-teacher pool of highly qualified, ambitious and enthusiastic STEM
teachers, Pivot Point Education Service will:

• Conduct rigorous recruitment procedures including having at least two locally-based

education professionals as well as one UK-based educational professional at the
interviews’ level.

• Thoroughly vet the qualification and experience of all our teachers

• Contact all referees in person, through our locally-based officials, to verify the validity
of the references.

• Facilitate communication between prospective candidates with our client-schools

through our overseas offices and support our Client-school in the process of
recruiting a teacher once an ideal candidate has been identified.

The cost of the service

Our pricing strategy focusses on the minimisation of the education service costs of our
Client-schools and the trimming down of our profit margins to counter-competition from
other well-established teacher recruitment agencies. Pivot point Education Services will
therefore charge a finder’s fee for each successfully recruited candidate, irrespective of
their subject specialism.

Noella Ayieko
Managing Director
Pivot Point Services Limited