This course is developed to provide you with the tools to evaluate your strategic choices, helping you make marginal gains where you can and results in an ambitious school improvement strategy.
Who is this for?
Experienced and established senior leads for mental health who are keen to influence and shape change within their own setting and the wider community
Length
4 months
Learn how to write and implement a strategy to deliver whole school change and ensure that no student misses out on the mental health support they need. Drive school improvement by gaining an in-depth understanding of how to work more effectively with parents, pupils, and the wider community to ensure every child can flourish and learn.
This course does not shy away from the challenges, it rather recognises them and develops ways around them. Firstly, there is variable buy in from staff on evidence-based practice (as previously alluded to) which has led to varying degrees of implementation and has had a knock-on effect to parental and student engagement. However, there are other inter-related issues, such as social stigma around mental health, parental risk factors, funding issues, waiting times and so on. There are also issues around implementation, from competing priorities around students (attainment vs. pastoral care) to issues around screening and outcome evaluation. That is not however to say that these issues are insurmountable; they can and have been tackled in schools where a strategic and systematic approach have been adopted. Hence, it is really important schools have an evidence-based grounding coming from professionals working in the field.
In this course you will focus on how you tie together the various strands of the whole school approach to mental health. A school leadership specialist will work with you on developing your three-year roadmap for whole school strategic change and you will also develop your own leadership development plan, identifying how you can increase your leadership potential in the coming year.
This course is developed to provide you with the tools to evaluate your strategic choices, helping you make marginal gains where you can and results in an ambitious school improvement strategy. Throughout, your peers will support and challenge your thinking, resulting in a more informed strategy and deeper understanding how your leadership can advance further.
Our programme delivery is as follows.
The course will be delivered via an online portal with eight units, live webinars and breakout sessions. This allows participants to work at their own pace.
Mental Health Leads will be grouped together in peer networks with other leads from schools with similar socio-economic backgrounds to look at how to get staff buy-in around the action plans they are developing. You will peer review each other’s plans, allowing you to exchange best practice.
Access to the Carnegie Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead Community, to attend further CPD opportunities
To be eligible for this programme you must:
Experienced and established senior lead for mental health.
Cost: £900
4 months
The course is online but at the end we hold a regional conference where student meet each other in person.
