NISTR Functionality Update

Supply Teachers can now decline a booking which has an ‘offered’ status within the booking system. A reason must be provided and the school will have access to view this. The status will be updated to ‘declined’. Please take time to review any bookings offered on your account and ‘accept’ bookings that you have worked or intend to work, or ‘decline’ bookings that were not worked or are not suitable.

Please note, your profile will appear in school searches if you meet 75% or more of their search criteria, which may mean some dates in the booking overlap with dates you are not available. The newly added ‘decline booking’ function will support you to manage your offered and accepted bookings effectively to ensure your potential for employment opportunity is maximised.

Please see our updated ‘Managing Bookings’ quick reference guide.

We have deployed a number of fixes to resolve some issues faced by supply teachers using NISTR including improving the display of the NISTR interface on mobile devices and allowing streamlined editing of existing bookings. Supply teachers should notice general improvements to system performance.

Upgrades have been deployed to teacher search functionality to ensure that the search results page is ranked according to suitability of the teacher. The search will no longer randomise and results displayed will be in a fixed position with each teacher only appearing once in a search. Only teachers with an available status for 75% or more of the dates identified by the search parameters will appear to the school.

Please note, teachers who meet your search criteria by 75% or more will show in your search results. Please look at the suitability of each teacher and select the best fit for your requirements.

Supply Teachers can now decline an ‘offered’ booking and provide a reason for declining to a school. Schools may then recreate the booking within the NISTR solution to offer the position to another suitable teacher.

Please see our updated ‘Managing Bookings’ quick reference guide.

We have deployed a number of fixes to resolve some issues faced by schools and EA services  using NISTR, including allowing streamlined editing of existing bookings. Schools and EA Services should notice general improvements to system performance.