Recruiting headteachers
Resources to help local authorities, diocesan boards, school groups or networks attract and recruit headteachers.
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
(332kb, 34 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)
What's good about leading schools in challenging circumstances?
Find out what drives headteachers successfully leading schools in challenging circumstances.
- What's good about leading schools in challenging circumstances? (212kb, 16 pages)
Leading appointments
The selection and appointment of headteachers and senior leaders: a review of the literature.
- Leading appointments (331kb, 47 pages)
Recruitment and retention
Video presentation by Peter Addison-Child, director and co-founder of Navigate, a specialist consultancy working in leadership recruitment and development in education, skills and children's services.
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.
Marketing leadership roles
This tool contains an interactive questionnaire designed to stimulate thinking about current and longer-term recruitment marketing strategies. It provides you with pointers to action.
Building a job description
This tool enables you to build a complete job description, using a step-by-step process.
Attracting candidates to the market
To market leadership roles effectively, it helps to understand how the recruitment market operates.This interactive guide considers advertising and marketing the role to attract the candidates you want.
Responding to the market
This interactive guide considers how roles can be positioned to respond to the demands of the leadership market. It also looks at the importance of selling a post to attract the right candidates.
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.
