Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
This course is being delivered online, and a recording will be available for up to 30 days after the event has ended.
Fees
Member - £99
Non-Member - £149
Facilitator - Philippa Ollerhead
Every HR issue, whether staff related or an external complaint, must be handled sensitively and quickly if it is not to take focus away from the children, teaching and learning.
This course will support you to lead investigations in your own school or group of schools with confidence.
You will learn strategies to support:
- Meeting with all involved parties to establish facts
- Collating evidence and developing a chronology
- Leading and recording witness interviews
- Managing difficult conversations
- Developing action plans to improve
- Moving staff towards capability procedures
Aims
- Discuss how to avoid conflict and manage the early stages of HR issues • Learn how to carry out a robust internal school investigation • Review a sample investigation report.
- Discuss how to conduct difficult conversations School investigations and low-level HR interventions The investigation and investigation report Difficult conversations and disciplinary/capability procedures.
- Ensure that you are up to date with the latest safeguarding statutory guidance from the DfE and Ofsted.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the behaviour expectations within the inspection framework.
- Focus on best practice techniques for school leadership of safeguarding.
- Ensure that internal school response procedures are robust.
- Evaluate how you embed peer-to-peer abuse, sexual harassment and sexual violence into the school curriculum.
- Assess your own site security and understand the requirements of the Health and Safety Executive.
Outline Programme
- School investigations and low-level HR interventions
- The investigation and investigation report
- Difficult conversations and disciplinary/capability procedures
Audience
School leaders - Head teachers, Deputy head teachers and SLT including SBLs. Primary, Secondary, Special and APs suitable.
Facilitator
Philippa Ollerhead
Philippa has had a long career in education, having been a Head of English, a Vice Principal of a large sixth form college in Greater Manchester, Head teacher of a pupil referral unit and Head teacher at a secondary alternative provision school. Philippa is formally trained every academic year in the rigorous of the common inspection framework to prepare primary and secondary schools for Ofsted visits.
Philippa is a training partner for the NAHT, delivering courses for Head teachers across the country, in subjects such as Ofsted Update, Leading School Safeguarding, Joining or Forming a MAT – making an informed choice AND Leadership and Leading School Investigations.
Philippa has been an education improvement adviser for 9 years and works with schools in all sectors around the country supporting school leaders.