Permanent Employment Letters of Offer

Article last reviewed 06/10/26

Permanent Employment Letters of Offer

The following letters are suitable for offering permanent employment.

These letters should be used after reading and applying the article on decision making and offering employmentopen_in_new, which details the appropriate steps to take before using one of these letters.

For fixed term employment agreements, please see the fixed term letters of offer and noticesopen_in_new article.

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Please note the letters are listed in groups in this order:

  1. Letters of Offer - Teachers
  2. Learning Support Coordinators
  3. Support Staff
  4. Kaiārahi i te Reo
  5. Caretakers, Cleaners and Canteen (including Healthy Lunch Programme) Staff
  6. Community Education
  7. Therapists
  8. Specialist Residential School staff (non-teaching)
  9. Principals
  10. Those whose work does not fall within the coverage of a CA.

Teachers

Learning Support Coordinators

Support staff

For the purposes of the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, a full-time employee is one who works 40 hours per week, 52 weeks of the year. All other employees should be employed using the applicable part-time letter.

Kaiārahi i te Reo

For the purposes of the Kaiārahi i te Reo and Therapists’ Collective Agreement, a full-time employee is one who works 40 hours per week, 52 weeks of the year. All other employees should be employed using the part-time letter.

Caretakers, Cleaners and Canteen (including Healthy Lunch Programme) Staff

Community Education

Therapists

Please read the articles on Appointing an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapistopen_in_new and Appointing a Music or Speech-language Therapistopen_in_new before using these letters:

Specialist Residential School staff (non-teaching)

Principals

Those whose work does not fall within the coverage of a CA