With over 20 years experience working with schools in areas of Human Resources, Governance, Health and Safety, Finance and Data Protection I am in a unique position to be able to offer schools a vast amount of varied experience in areas that can ease a lot of time pressures and commitments from head teachers and other senior leaders.
Whether it be through an SLA, Pay As You Go arrangement or just a one off project please feel free to contact me for help with any of the areas of speciality below....
General Data Protection Regulations
All initial project work undertaken to ensure your school is GDPR compliant.
Ongoing reviews and advice on GDPR.
Fulfilling the role of designated Data Protection Officer for your school (Required by all schools from May 2018).
Training and awareness raising sessions for staff and governors.
Information and data audits to monitor and ensure compliance.
Human Resources
Advice on employment issues.
Attendance and advice at sickness review meetings.
Advice and support in reducing or reorganising the staffing establishment.
Strategic HR advice to enable you to achieve your end goals.
Advice and support in areas of disciplinary, grievance and capability.
Advice and support in performance management for both teaching and non-teaching staff.
Training for Head teachers and other staff in HR matters.
Safeguarding
An audit of your safeguarding register to ensure you remain compliant.
Audit of your personnel files and records to ensure you remain compliant.
Setup and maintenance of your Single Central Record.
Recruitment
Assistance and advice on recruitment for your school considering financial and HR issues.
Involvement in recruitment processes.
Creation of job descriptions and person specifications bespoke for your school needs.
Review of office procedures & processes
Audit of your school office effectiveness.
Reorganisation of school office to ensure effective systems and procedures.
Review and assistance in response to internal audit reports and recomendations.
Policies & Procedures
An audit and review of all schools policies and procedures to ensure you remain compliant.
Provision and maintenance of a Policy Map for your school to update existing policies and create new policies when required and in light of any new or changing legislation.
Drafting and preparation of policies and procedures in response to changing or new legislation.
Governance & Clerking
Clerking of additional governors/committee meetings.
Governance reviews.
Governor skills audits and training identification.