Leadership

If you have any questions in relation to the following, please contact Yvonne Salter Wright, Deputy Director (Leadership and Governance) by emailing leadership@bdes.org.uk :

• leadership recruitment and appointments and all related documentation and processes
  • leadership vacancy notification form now available**
  • publication of leadership advertisements 
• interim leadership solutions
• leadership mentoring or coaching and identifying external advisors for supporting appraisal/PM
• facilitating leadership training and networking including principal/headteacher and vice principal/deputy headteacher induction programmes
• Diocesan leadership strategy aligned with Diocesan Academy Strategy (including the role of the Catholic Senior Executive Leader)
• identifying and facilitating development of aspiring leaders and those returning to Catholic education from outside the sector
• deployment of CES and DES employment policies and contracts

Governance Skills Audit

If you are a newly appointed governor, academy representative or director in one of our diocesan schools then please complete the skills audit by clicking on the link below. This will assist the DES in identifying training needs for all of those involved in the governance of our schools.

We also recommend that all existing governors complete this skills audit on an annual basis to ensure that they identify their training needs and these needs can then be met by suitable providers, including the DES. 

Individual Governor's Skills Audit

Governance - Voluntary Aided

Governance - Academies