Leadership
Secure Your First Leadership Role – Becoming SLT
The step up to SLT is won on paper and on interview day, so make your covering letter, panel answers and presentation count.
- 34 minutes
- 7 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Write a one-page covering letter that ties your evidence to the person specification
- Show your experience across six areas of senior leadership
- Describe your CPD in terms of the difference it has made
- Prepare for panels on people, finance, curriculum, behaviour and safeguarding
- Plan a short presentation to staff that makes one point well
About this course
You've led a team, raised standards and covered for colleagues when it counted. Getting that across on paper, and again under pressure on interview day, is a different skill.
The covering letter follows a simple structure (why this job, recent evidence of impact, then your vision) and fits on one page. A shortlisting panel will read it even if the advert says they won't. Six areas of senior leadership, such as leading teaching and learning or managing a team, help you spot experience you've been underselling.
On the day, you'll know which panels to prepare for, including finance and safeguarding, and how to steady yourself when a question throws you. You'll also have a short talk to staff built around one clear idea.
- For middle leaders and senior leaders. Post-16, primary, secondary and special.
7 modules
Open in order
- 3 min
Introduction
- 1 min
Wrap up and resource packs
- 4 min
The covering letter
- 9 min
The six realms of school leadership
- 6 min
The application
- 6 min
Panel interviews
- 9 min
The presentation