Do you want to?

Provide whole school/LEA policies for recruitment and retention?

Improve and target recruitment of staff to your organisation?

Keep and motivate staff?

Develop appropriate strategies for tracking applications?

Are you?

Open to improving the strategies and structures you operate for recruitment and retention?

Committed to developing your prospect management strategies?

Aware of how to recruit more successfully from minority ethnic communities?

Open to developing your interview and induction processes?


What will we achieve?

A staff recruitment policy and practice individually tailored to the school’s or LEA’s needs.

A stable teaching work force in the short and medium term.

A strategy for strategic planning and staff development based on a balance between individual and school or LEA needs.

A dynamic and diverse work force working towards common goals.

A system that supports staff and school well being as an integral aspect of school improvement.


Who is working with you?

We have a core of senior associates who are interested in the leadership of the four strands of your work.


They consist of:

:: George Mardle

:: David Dickson


 

The aim of our work is to promote recruitment and retention strategies within schools and LEAs that are appropriate for your particular needs within the environment that you work. Starting with an analysis of current practice and procedures we would work with you to highlight those aspects that are currently open to realistic change and development. We would recognise that the process is holistic and involves governors, senior managers, classroom teachers and administrative staff.

The process would be looked at from initial vacancy, application process, short listing, interviews, job offer and induction into the school.

Strategies for dealing with retention would similarly start from your particular needs within the environment that you work. It would recognise that what constitutes a retention strategy requires the school or LEA to address a number of issues, both internal and external, to their core work.

It would work with the school or LEA to provide alternatives for action that are realistic, manageable and possible to achieve in both the short and long term.

Particularly the issue of work life balance for all staff would be addressed as an essential feature of promoting a strategic retention strategy.