OUR CURRENT COURSE PROGRAMME

PLANNING YOUR OWN CAREER DEVELOPMENT PATH AND RETIREMENT STRATEGY
FINDING THE RIGHT SOLUTION FOR YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL

A RESIDENTIAL COURSE AT HASSOP HALL COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL BAKEWELL

18/19 MARCH 2010

These days, it’s never too early to be thinking about your next career move. Whether you see your next step as a move into a full-time executive role across a federation of schools, into a part-time senior leadership role combined with more leisure time or with your own consultancy business, or just into plain old-fashioned retirement, the range of options available can be quite bewildering.
The key to success in all cases is advance planning. First, you need to know about the range of possibilities available and about the financial implications of each. Secondly, you need to develop a clear picture of what’s right for you. Finally you need to make sure that all the building blocks are in place to ensure that neither governors nor the local authority can stand in the way of your chosen path – because it’s self-evidently right for your school as well as for you.

Our course is directed by Nigel Middleton, a former headteacher who, in the decade since he left headship, has developed Head Support into a company with a national profile in the pay and conditions field. He will guide you through the range of pensions options available and, if you want to carry on working part-time, show you how to request a reduction in working hours in a way your governors will find difficult to resist. He will give you details of the work opportunities that are available in what is a rapidly changing consultancy market – either employed by someone else or developing and marketing your own niche product. He will advise you on the various business start-up options available – sole trader, partnership or limited company – and explain the intricacies of VAT. And, if you are planning a move into executive headship, he will help you make sure that you achieve the best possible personal terms.

Our residential course is set in a magnificent Georgian Country House Hotel whose food and facilities are legendary amongst Derbyshire headteachers. Bedrooms are available from 4pm on Thursday and the course itself begins with welcome drinks at 6pm – followed by an introductory session and four course dinner. The course fee of £425 plus VAT includes confidential follow-up advice on any pensions issues from an experienced senior LA personnel officer together with accommodation, meals and all drinks provided with them.

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PLANNING YOUR OWN CAREER DEVELOPMENT PATH AND RETIREMENT STRATEGY
FINDING THE RIGHT SOLUTION FOR YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL

2010 PROGRAMME
18/19 MARCH 2010

Thursday

1800 Welcome and Introductions

1815 Pay, Conditions of Service and Pensions Issues
Briefing and follow up contact details

2000 Dinner

Friday

0800 Breakfast

0915 What are your personal aims?
What are your professional aims?
What are your income targets?
Are all of these things compatible?
Is your school ready for this news?

1045 Coffee

1100 What type of work is available?
How is the consultancy marketplace changing?
Are you going to work for other people – or yourself?
What sort of support are schools going to need?
How do you develop and market a specialism?

1300 Lunch

1400 Financial issues
Sole trader, partnership or limited company?
VAT?
Insurance; professional indemnity
What to charge?

1445 Making preparations, letting people know your plans

1515 Summary

1530 Tea; evaluations; farewells

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