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 staff grievance 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
- Review disciplinary procedures and how to manage these procedures within school
- Learn how to carry out a robust internal school investigation
- Review a sample investigation report
- Discuss how to conduct difficult conversations
Audience
School leaders - Head teachers, Deputy head teachers and SLT including SBLs. Primary, Secondary, Special and APs suitable.
What are people saying about this course?
"Superb presentation." Susan - Executive head teacher, 2023
"Excellent, my third traning session with Philippa , so insightful and useful for heads. Thank you." Delegate, 2023
"Highly practical, interesting, based in an understanding of the job of Headship: really pleased I attended." Judith, 2023
"The training today was outstanding." Steven, 2023
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.