YORK-based education recruitment agency, Supported Recruitment Ltd, is opening a new office in Otley this summer.

As the agency nears its second anniversary, they welcome Helen Russell on board, as co-director at Supported Recruitment Leeds. She will head up the Leeds operation alongside fellow director James Robinson.

Supported Recruitment, which is run by teachers for teachers, currently supplies and recruits teachers for primary schools in York and the surrounding region. The new Leeds base means that they will be able to provide their services across more of Yorkshire, recruiting for primary schools in Harrogate and Leeds. The team at Supported are passionate about supplying and recruiting teachers who are properly prepared to take on a teaching role. They also have specialist teaching coaches who support their supply teachers by working alongside them in the classroom.

Director and founder of Supported Recruitment, Richard Robinson said: “We’re thrilled to have Helen joining us and are very excited to extend the business further into Yorkshire. Helen’s passion for education and continual drive to ensure all children and staff become ‘the best versions of themselves’ and her obvious commitment to ensuring staff feel valued and supported to progress and enjoy their teaching careers, chimes perfectly with our mission to do everything we can to make sure our supply teachers are supported to be successful.”

Helen adds: “I’ve loved my teaching career so far and have particularly enjoyed mentoring and coaching colleagues across the primary phase, identifying personal strengths and designing bespoke CPD opportunities to ensure all members of the team succeed. I can now bring all of this experience to Supported Recruitment, working with Richard, James and the team to get the best for our supply teachers and the schools in which they are placed. I’m really looking forward to this next phase of my career.”

Visit www.supportedrecruitment.co.uk or e-mail: richard@supportedrecruitment.co.uk