Recruiting headteachers
Resources to help you develop successful strategies for the appointment of highly-effective school leaders.
Recruiting headteachers and senior leaders
Guidance and practical tools to help governors make the best decision when seeking a new headteacher or senior leader for their school.
- Recruiting headteachers and senior leaders
(316kb, 34 pages)
Succession Planning: Key themes for school governors
This booklet encapsulates topics from 5 conferences, held last year by the National Governors' Association and the National College for School Leadership, to support governors in finding and developing headteachers. It includes answers to questions governors asked, and signposts where to find more information.
- Succession Planning: Key themes for school governors (1.56Mb, 21 pages)
Taking a marketing approach to leadership recruitment
The guide approaches school leadership recruitment from a marketing perspective. It concentrates on the first part of the recruitment process - attracting candidates to the headship market.
- Turning heads (291kb, 48 pages)
Leading appointments
The selection and appointment of headteachers and senior leaders: a review of the literature.
- Leading appointments (331kb, 47 pages)
Successful recruitment
Video presentation by Clare Collins, who has been a school governor for 16 years.
Change and school leadership
Video presentation by Siddique Hussain, who has been a school governor in Sandwell in the West Midlands for more than 14 years.
Building a job description
This tool enables you to build a complete job description, using a step-by-step process.
Recruiting for leadership roles
This tool is intended to help governors make the best decision when seeking a new headteacher. It takes you through the seven steps of recruitment and offers a self-evaluation checklist with top tips to accompany each step.
Achieving equality and diversity in leadership
This interactive guide provides a checklist of key equality and diversity actions to help schools, school leaders, governors and local authorities strengthen and enhance their existing policies.
Achieving equality and diversity in school and children’s centre leadership
This guide provides support to leaders in education services in achieving equality and diversity in school and children’s centre leadership. It explains why equality and diversity leadership action at every level is critical.
New models of headship
This interactive guide considers the need to widen the talent pool from which school leaders are drawn.
Recruitment process
This interactive guide looks at each stage of the recruitment process, the key issues to consider and the answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Leadership recruitment
This interactive guide looks at the importance of taking a strategic view with regard to leadership recruitment. It considers the issues to think about in order to secure the right leaders to meet the needs of your school, both now and in the future.
Improving school recruitment (talk2learn highlights)
How to improve the recruitment and application process, in this talk2learn highlights Tomorrow's leaders today special.
Encouraging diversity in leadership (talk2learn highlights)
Highlights from the talk2learn discussion: Encouraging diversity in leadership, led by Rosemary Campbell-Stephens.
