Recruiting headteachers and senior leaders

This guidance is intended to help and others make the best decision when seeking a new headteacher and other senior leaders for their school. It also helps governors to think about recruitment processes as part of longer-term planning to ensure that your school always has the best leadership for its long-term needs.

Seven steps to success

Find out about the seven steps of the recruitment process.

seven steps of recruitment

Recruitment tools

Tools to support you as a governor in the seven recruitment stages.

practical toolkits

Further information

Before you download either of the documents on the left, or access the information on this website, it is worth reading the introduction to the report, as well as the background to the report's creation.

Information is also available on recruitment within the broader context of succession planning.