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Headteacher recruitment during coronavirus: how to manage it remotely
You can still successfully recruit a headteacher if you can't do it face to face. Here's what you need to do differently to lead a remote recruitment round and how to do it well.
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- Take extra precautions so the process runs smoothly
- Have an additional phone interview to screen candidates
- Speak with referees before the interview
- Set up remote interviewing and test it
- Most traditional interview tasks will probably be the same
- Get candidates to meet staff remotely
- Do the same with pupils
- Check ID documents remotely
Take extra precautions so the process runs smoothly
Plan for people being off sick
- Use a shared drive for all recruitment documents. Make sure everyone who needs to has access
- At the end of each day, note down where you're at in the recruitment process and what the next steps are, so that others can pick it up if needed
- Add extra buffer time into your process to account for any delays
- Have more than 1 recruitment panel member trained in safer recruitment. If you're a member of Safeguarding Training Centre from The Key, take our safer recruitment eLearning module
Make sure you over-communicate throughout the process
Decide
- Advertising requirements: headteacher vacancy
- Appointing a headteacher: tasks for the chair
- Co-headship: guidance for governors
- Deputy headteachers: appointment and pay
- Headteacher absence: how to respond
- Headteacher recruitment: an overview
- Headteacher recruitment: what to avoid
- Headteacher selection panel: requirements and eligibility
- Ratifying the decision of the headteacher recruitment panel
- Writing a reference for your headteacher
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