Agreed Efficiency Improvements Clause Samples
Agreed Efficiency Improvements. (1) First Teaching Appointment: a Teacher, who, at the end of the initial twelve (12) months service with the Centre is deemed by the Centre not to have developed adequate teaching skills, may be appointed as a temporary teacher and subject to contract of service, Initial Employment at the Centre, shown in Appendix 1.
(2) Normal full-time working hours at TSH for Specialists staff and Administration are 8:30am – 4:30pm Monday to Friday.
(3) Normal full-time working week for Teacher Assistants is 32.5 hours.
(4) All employees of TSH will be provided with a lockable cabinet which they can use to store confidential information and their personal belongings.
(5) All staff shall be provided with a contract of service and job description form (JDF).
(6) All employees shall be allowed a meal break of not less than 30 minutes or more than one hour between the hours of 12.00 noon and 2.00 pm. Such time shall not count as time worked.
(7) Should staff members take on a job share role the Centre will, with consultation of the employees job-sharing, provide guidelines for the arrangements of the job share situation.
Agreed Efficiency Improvements. (1) Professional Development
(a) Professional development activities shall be undertaken partly in College time and partly in a teacher's own time; where feasible, in equal proportions.
(b) There will continue to be consultation with employees in the planning of professional development.
(c) Staff recognise that there is a need for a formative professional development process that focuses on the development of excellence in teaching and learning within all aspects of the life of the school and commit themselves to development of such a system over the duration of the agreement.
(2) Promotion Positions
(a) While maintaining the promotion structure described in the Award, the College shall have the discretion to adapt this structure to meet its educational needs. The normal processes of appointment to promotion positions will be followed.
(b) Appointments to Head of House will be for an initial five-year term.
(c) Appointments to Curriculum Leader will be for an initial five year term. All other promotional appointments will be for an initial three-year term.
(d) All re-appointments to Head of House and Curriculum Leader for second and subsequent terms will be for three years and subject to satisfactory summative appraisal. Procedures for summative appraisal shall be developed in consultation with representatives of Heads of House and Curriculum Leaders.
(e) In all cases the appointment to the promotion position may be terminated before the end of the term of appointment by mutual agreement of the College and the member of staff, or by the College in the case of an unsatisfactory summative appraisal.
(f) During the term of this agreement, promotional positions, their definitions and remuneration will be reviewed in consultation with the enterprise bargaining committee and a mutually agreed position determined.
Agreed Efficiency Improvements