how might a Tunisian schoolteacher find a job in Britain?

[Harold Davis]

I am asking this on behalf of a friend of my mother's.

How might a Tunisian schoolteacher go about finding a job teaching in a
state school in Britain?

She qualified as a teacher in Tunisia.

She has 10 years' experience teaching English in a school in Tunisia, at
both primary and secondary level.

She has a master's degree in English Language and Literature, from a
Tunisian University.

As I understand it - and I'd be grateful for corrections if I've got some
of this wrong:

a) as an "Overseas Trained Teacher" (OTT) she would be allowed under the
"4 year rule" to teach in a British state school for 4 years without
gaining QTS

b) she would be most likely to find work in a school in a disadvantaged
inner-city area, the kind that many British teachers and teachers from
overseas with QTS would prefer to avoid (I have warned her of how
stressful things can get), or perhaps in a remote area somewhere

c) this is especially so, given that she would be teaching English but is
not a native speaker (even though her command of English is of a near-
native standard)

Am I in the right ballpark?

Three sets of questions...

1) Where she should look for job adverts placed by schools that might
take someone from Tunisia and be willing to do the extra paperwork that
might be required (?) compared to if they hired someone from the EEA or
US etc.?

And is there somewhere that she can register with that may then send her
to one of many schools? (I've heard of the Preference Waiver Scheme, but
am very much sailing by the seat of my pants here, and would welcome some
info from someone for whom this is old hat. Excuse the mixed metaphors!)

2) Would she count as "unqualified" and come in at the very bottom of the
salary scale? Again, please excuse my ignorance. If you aren't a QT, does
that mean you are must be an NQT? Or is there a third category, that OTTs
without QTS fit into? I'm wondering whether her 10 years' experience will
be taken account of in her salary or not. Can someone advise as to what
kind of salary she might get?

3) Is it normal to pay for an applicant's travel to get to interview? Or
is that only done for travel within Britain?

All advice very welcome :-)

Thanks in advance,

Harry