Welcome to Queen Elizabeth's School Induction

Please refer to the above Policies section to view the Safeguarding and Child Protection and related policies 

Sickness Absence

Staff Absence Line 01202 879 351

Email: cover@queenelizabeths.com

Human Resources: cdraga@queenelizabeths.com

For sickness absence please call the Staff Absence Line 01202 879 351 by no later than 7.15 am. As a minimum, you are expected to phone in again on each day of your absence unless you have been signed off by your doctor please inform the school on which day you will return to work.

Keep in touch with the school via HR Manager, Cheri Draga  cdraga@queenelizabeths.com. 

You must complete a Self-certification form from day one of your sickness absence to when you return to work, a Blank Self Certificate is available to download from the Staff Handbook under the Forms section

If you are sick for more than 7 calendar days, you must get a GP certificate (sick note) to cover the sickness period from Day 8 onwards. Send them regularly to the Head Teacher/ HR Manager.

Further information can be found in the school’s Sickness Absence Policy

Absence General : Should you need to be absent from school please complete the following:

Teaching Staff - a Yellow Request for Cover form.

Support Staff please collect a Green Request for Leave of Absence form

Both forms are available from the HR/Cover Office

Cover Work 

When setting cover lessons please use the Cover Planning sheet Template and place a copy in the Cover Work folder.

Bring a printed copy to the Cover office together with any resources and seating plans AND Email any additional information to Cover@queenelizabeths.com 

At QE we are committed to the safety of all of our staff students and visitors. To deliver this we utilise professional advice and audit from Judicium Education. Staff have a key role to play and you will receive induction and ongoing training to enable you to fulfill this role. The induction is made up of the following courses:

Please prioritise these courses which must be completed before your start date:

Health & Safety Basics for Schools

Fire Safety Training

GDPR

Also to be completed

Manual Handling

Working at Height (Basics)

Managing Stress

Control of infections

Onsite if you have any H&S concerns these should in the first instance be highlighted to your line manager and then if needed a ticket should be raised via the helpdesk for facilities management.

Please dial 0 for reception if it is an emergency or phone the team directly on 01202 856314

Contact for this training: CDraga@queenelizabeths.com

Cheri Draga, HR Manager is the HR and Payroll contact at QE and is available to help with any payroll related issues as well as general  HR/contract queries, staff training bookings and SIMS password resets and permissions and email groups.

QE Staff are paid on the last working day of each month. Payslips are sent by Dorset Council, our payroll providers, electronically to staff. Please notify HR straight away should you not receive this.

Please ensure that you provide Parts 2 and 3 of your P45 as soon as you receive it. Please hand to HR

Contact email: cdraga@queenelizabeths.com 

QE is a cashless school and all staff are issued with a ParentPay login and password so that they can add money to their account and use this to purchase items from the on-site restaurant and cafe.

This information will be provided by the Finance office on your first day at the school . The Finance contacts are Rachael Page and Shona Harvey.

Finance@queenelizabeths.com 

The Wimborne Academy Trust have a dedicated IT Support team. We are a Google Workspace Trust which means you will use applications such as Google Drive and Gmail.

Your account will be created prior to your joining. You will then be able to access your account on your first day by coming up to the Tech Office at the top of E Block. 

If you have any issues with IT whilst you are employed by the Trust/QE, please log them at this address using your computer credentials to log in.

Technical Services can also be reached on 01202 794508

https://support.wimborneacademytrust.org

As a new employee of the Initio Learning trust we would like to make you aware of benefits available to you.

Wellbeing Pages

A range of practical support and advice is offered to staff, to signpost you to options put in place by the Trust to help you with your wellbeing, provide more information regarding the range of employee benefits available to you, and provides links to external support.  Further details will be available once you start at QE 

Health Cash Plan 

Through our chosen partner UK Healthcare,  we are pleased to be able to offer staff a great range of benefits in terms of cash reimbursement for a range of day to day health related expenditure such as dental, optical, physiotherapy and prescription expenses.

New parents can claim a £100 one off payment to help cover the costs that a new child brings.  But the health cash plan offers so much more than that. UK Healthcare have partnered with MyGym discounts to offer some really competitive discounted joining offers, and there are lots of participating gyms in the area:  BHLive, Fitness First and David Lloyd to name a few.  If going to the Gym isn't your thing, there are also offers on a great range of digital discounts from top brand names.

There are a wide range of support services available through an Employee Assistant Programme.  This includes access to professional counselling should

      you need to at any time.  Wellbeing videos, podcasts and 4 weeks plans can be accessed by downloading My Healthy App (a code will be supplied to you)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Cycle to work offers a simple and tax efficient way for you to get pedalling without the initial outlay that goes with a new bike, by spreading the cost of repayments directly from your monthly salary. 

The scheme works through Salary Sacrifice. This means you don't pay tax or national insurance on the amount you are repaying.  As a result, basic rate taxpayers will save 33.25% on the overall cost of the bike, with even higher savings for higher-rate taxpayers.