Our Story
Who are Affinity?
Established in 2008, Affinity Education Limited are an independent, highly reputable, boutique education recruitment specialist company located in Wales.
Affinity Education is owned and managed by Directors Mary Barton and Hayley Stockdale-Smith, who collectively have extensive experience of working within education recruitment.
What do they do?
Affinity ‘connect' Education professionals with Schools across Wales and understanding the staffing needs of our schools, we offer effective and intelligent cover solutions, supplying Teachers and Education Support Staff to Schools in Wales, who provide an invaluable contribution to the Education workforce.
Affinity is dedicated to providing a high-quality recruitment service to Schools in Wales and offering employment opportunities to education personnel living in Wales.
Why work with Affinity?
Affinity Education is an established, highly professional company, forging long lasting, positive working relationships with the teachers, education support staff and schools in which they work with and are seen as a refreshing choice of a public sector recruiter within the education industry.
Affinity Education proactively promote our registered staff to secure them suitable short and long-term desirable teaching posts to build on experience and professional development.
Sharing close links with Teacher Training Universities in Wales, we are invited to attend their exclusive annual Teacher Recruitment Fairs, hold independent recruitments days and advertise on the university job boards.
Teachers with QTS are knowledgeable and supportive of NQT's completing their induction vis Supply Teaching.
Teachers are paid to scale-minimum of MPS 2 (Prion to AWR-12 continuous weeks)-Paid via PAYE with no payroll costs.
The majority of our registered staff are introduced via recommendations from fellow education professionals-we also offer a referral scheme, whereby a monetary reward is provided to those who recommend staff.
Teachers and Education Support Staff working with Affinity Education are part of our team, our colleagues and we endeavour to make everyone feel valued and supported.
We welcome you to view our ‘Happy Candidates’ page which endorses the service we provide to our registered staff together with our ‘Quality of Service’ page, providing features of our standards of excellence including pay assurances.