Efficiencies in Schools - Programme

Combating the ‘recruitment crisis’ and attracting high-quality candidates:

• Take away efficient and cost-effective recruitment strategies and learn from others on how to save time and money
• Overcome prohibitive costs and gain affordable advertising solutions to support your recruitment strategy moving forward
• Creative ways to promote your school in your community and help portray it as an attractive place to work

Matthew Wheeler, Business Manager, Bordesley Green Girls' School

Managing requests for flexible working by staff fairly and legally:

• Gain clarity on the benefits and disadvantages and what your school is able to legally and practically do with permanent, fixed-term, part-time and temporary contracts
• Know how to manage requests for part-time and job-sharing and manage the impact on timetabling and operational planning in school

Tracey Gray, Director of Support, Walbottle Campus

Retaining high-quality staff and effective succession planning:

• How to identify, promote, nurture and retain talent through effective CPD routes
• Best practice surrounding performance management, managing pay structures and implementing creative incentives and rewards
• Take away case studies from academies that have successfully negotiated variations to T&Cs

Tracey Gray, Director of Support, Walbottle Campus

Managing staff absence compliantly and minimising disruption:

• Practical guidance on managing short- and long-term staff absence robustly and fairly
• Build a robust staff absence policy which meets your legal duties towards staff but minimises the financial impact on your school
• Know when and how to involve Occupational Health

Matthew Wheeler, Business Manager, Bordesley Green Girls' School

Looking at your staffing structures and managing restructures: