Affinity Workforce Solutions named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work for third consecutive year

Esme Bianchi-Barry, CEO of Affinity Workforce Solutions

A leading education workforce provider has been named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for the third year running.

Affinity Workforce Solutions, which places approximately 2,900 temporary education workers in schools and colleges every day, has been listed in the Medium Organisation category for the third consecutive year.

Affinity scored Excellent across all six of the award's happiness measures, with an average happiness score of 86% and a job satisfaction rating of 88%.

Esme Bianchi-Barry, CEO, said: "Being included on the list reflects both our core values and the dedication of our people. We believe our colleagues are our greatest asset, and this recognition reinforces our commitment to building a supportive, inclusive and rewarding workplace. We continue to invest in our people through a strong benefits offering, including a dedicated learning and development function, ongoing training and mentoring programmes, clear career progression pathways, and comprehensive wellbeing support."

The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, produced in partnership with employee experience platform WorkL, is one of the UK's most respected workplace accolades. To be listed, organisations must distribute an independent employee engagement survey to their entire workforce, with results assessed by an expert panel against strict engagement criteria across six drivers - reward and recognition, information sharing, empowerment, pride, job satisfaction and wellbeing.

Affinity Workforce Solutions operates across England and Scotland through its family of brands - Career Teachers (London, Leeds, Sheffield and Leicester), CER Education (Newcastle, Darlington, York, Sheffield, Hull, Liverpool, Luton and Kent), Monarch Education (Manchester, Midlands, Bristol and Nottingham), The Protocol Group (supporting colleges, universities and training providers across the UK) and Affinity Partnerships (Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, North West England and London).

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