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Headteacher Support

Headteacher Wellbeing

Your headteacher is busy looking after everyone else’s wellbeing – staff and students, often at the expense of their own. Governing bodies may wish to consider how you can support your headteacher in terms of work-life balance, new models of leadership, leadership time, career coaching and professional development opportunities for experience beyond your school. For more information relating to these aspects of headship, look at the leadership strategy information on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning:

School Self-Evaluation

The process of school self-evaluation has focussed school leaders on evaluating the school’s performance against a range of aspects. The Well-Being Programme can form a part of the school’s SEF and provides clear data and analysis on a range of indicators regarding the views of staff.

PPC Carewell Service - PPC Employee Assistance Programme for schools

PPC runs the Carewell Employee Assistance Programme for HCC staff and this is offered to schools to buy in to. It offers online, telephone and face to face counselling on a range of personal and professional themes such as financial advice, relationship and bereavement support, stress counselling, worklife balance, increasing confidence etc and supports both the employee and their family. For more information:ng:

To support headteacher wellbeing, the Leadership Strategy and Wellbeing Strategy are jointly funding the enrolment of all headteachers into the PPC Carewell service for one year, with an evaluation of impact at the end of the year.

This service is free of charge to all headteachers until March 2011. Please pass this to any headteachers that you feel may value this extra support.

Alison Parkes
Adviser for Staff Retention and Well Being in Schools
Tel: 01438 844864
Email: alison.parkes@ hertscc.gov.uk