Schools are starting to join ClassCover. Get on their lists.

Four things. Download the app, create your profile, complete it, and set your availability. That's everything. Schools are starting to join ClassCover, so you can start requesting to join the ones you want to work with.

Yes. ClassCover is open to every substitute teacher and SNA in Ireland, and requesting to join schools works the same wherever you are, so send your requests to the schools you want as soon as they are on. The difference is what a school can do at its end. In the pilot areas of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Limerick, Louth, Meath, Tipperary and Wicklow, schools have Full Access, so they can also search the network and add you to their list themselves. Everywhere else, schools start on ClassCover Lite: they can accept as many requests to join as they receive, they just can't search the network yet.

In the app. Once a school is on ClassCover, you send it a request to join and the school accepts, and this works the same anywhere in Ireland. You can also invite the local schools you already work with, and schools on Full Access can find you on the network and add you themselves. Once you're connected, the school can book you for work.

Schools have started coming on board and more keep joining right through the year. Some are on early in the term and others later, so keep an eye out for the schools you want to work with and send your request to join as soon as they're on.

EducationPosts.ie is a jobs board, where you find schools advertising for SNAs, apply and wait to be picked. ClassCover is a booking platform, where local schools send booking requests straight to you and you accept with a tap. A jobs board waits. A booking platform confirms.

You can use the EducationPosts.ie job board to find schools advertising for SNAs, but it is a noticeboard, not a booking system: you apply and wait. Its booking tool, Sub Seeker, is open only to registered teachers, so it does not book SNAs. ClassCover books SNAs directly, the same as substitute teachers.

In most cases, yes. A Garda vetting disclosure is issued to the specific organisation that requested it and is not transferable between organisations by default, so an SNA usually has to be vetted again by each school or patron body that employs them. Registered teachers are the exception: they are vetted once through the Teaching Council and recognised nationally.

No. ClassCover does not carry out or verify Garda vetting; the school and the National Vetting Bureau stay responsible, exactly as now. What it does is organise everything around the vetting: a school can hold you on its list before your vetting is confirmed, request your certificate and documents through the app, and it gets a reminder before any vetting it holds is due to expire.

Yes. ClassCover is free forever for substitute teachers and SNAs.

Directly by the school or the Department of Education. ClassCover never touches your pay.

ClassCover is EU-hosted and GDPR-accredited, so your information is stored and handled to European data-protection standards.