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 ?