Job Sharing
Teachers
The purpose of the Job Sharing Scheme is to assist employees in combining work commitments and personal responsibilities and choices.
Arrangements for job-sharing teachers should be considered within the spirit of the scheme to facilitate the teacher in combining work with personal responsibilities or choices. In reaching a decision, the welfare and educational needs of the pupils shall take precedence over all other considerations. Link to ACCS Information Bulletin X and template job sharing policy on ACCS website.
Job-sharing is the sharing of a wholetime teaching post between two permanent teachers or, one permanent teacher and one or more teachers/lecturers engaged to teach the remaining 11 hours in a temporary fixed term contract.
A teacher approved for job-sharing shall have their hours reduced to 11 hours consisting of teaching hours and professional time of 20 minutes.
Full details of the job-share scheme are set out in Circular Letter 0054/2019 - 'Leave Schemes for Registered Teachers Employed in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools.' The section on the Job-Sharing Scheme begins at chapter 8 of the document.
The latest date of application for teachers who wish to job-share is February 1st of the previous school year.
Maximum Period
Minimum period is 1 school year – subject to the approval of the Board of Management.
Paid/unpaid for teacher
Paid 11 hours per week
Cover type
Paid substitute
RPT (fixed term) teacher appointment
Special Needs Assistants
An SNA may make an application to share their current wholetime post on a 50:50 basis i.e. to work half the weekly hours they are currently contracted to work.
The minimum period for a Job Sharing arrangement is one school year.
For further information on the Job Sharing Scheme for SNAs please refer to Circular 0041/2014, titled “Job-Sharing Scheme for Special Needs Assistants in Recognised Primary and Post-Primary Schools
Important Note for SNAs
Boards are advised of an amendment to Circular 0041/2014 titled “Job-Sharing Scheme for Special Needs Assistants in Recognised Primary and Post-Primary Schools”. Please also refer to Information Note TC/IN 0002/2023