Clerks Conference June 2009 Headship and Leadership Recruitment.
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Transcript of Clerks Conference June 2009 Headship and Leadership Recruitment.
Clerks Conference June 2009 Headship and Leadership Recruitment
What is the situation now for recruiting and retaining Headteachers?
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Current position
Headteacher posts advertised since September 2008
Posts where appointments have been made
Primary - 14
Secondary – 2
Post currently being advertised/re-advertised
Primary - 21
Secondary - 1
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Average number of applications per headship • Primary – 3• Secondary – 15
Number of Headships Re –advertised• Primary – 8
Number re-advertised more than twice • Primary - 2
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Issues for recruiting and retaining
• Location – area, town, rural, transport
• Size of School – small school
• Faith Schools – individual requirements
• Salary range – group size, DHT range
• Timescales – holiday periods, resignation dates
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LA Support – 1 for Schools recruiting• Advice and guidance to Governing Body on the process of
appointing a new Headteacher
• Attendance at Governing Body meetings to explain procedures and responsibilities
• Booklet ‘Appointing your new HT and other members of the leadership group’
• Help with advertising including financial support
• Advice on best form of advertising to suit schools needs
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LA Support – 2 for schools recruiting
• Help with preparing recruitment pack
• Headship Admin service for dealing with all work associated with appointing a new HT
• Get a Head Start training for Governors
• Safer Recruitment Training
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Has your Governing Body considered other models of school leadership?
• Co- Headship
• Executive Headship
• Lead Headteacher
• Partnership Headteacher
• Acting Headteacher
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Co- Headship
• Two part- time employees are employed by a single school to cover the full- time head teacher post. This can be in any combination of more than one person amounting to 1fte.
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Executive Headship
Schools share a headteacher through;
• A hard Federation arrangement ( one Governing Body for more than one school.)
• A collaboration of schools. This is where Governing Body remains separate but making a joint appointment of a Head.
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Lead Head
• An existing Headteacher or Local Authority appointed advisor deployed to support another school who has a substantive Headteacher in post.
• Where there is no substantive Headteacher this person may be appointed as Acting Head.
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Acting Headteacher
• A person covering for a headteacher post pending appointment of permanent head
Or• During the temporary absence of substantive due to
sickness, maternity etc.
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Succession Planning task:
As a Clerk to a Governing body have you considered the following points:
Take a question and discuss in your groups and be prepared to share your outcomes.
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How you or could you discuss succession planning regularly at Governor meeting?
Have you a succession policy and strategy supporting all staff?
How do you succession plan and grow your own leaders?
Have you considered ways to retain your Headteacher/Leadership team ?