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National Professional Qualifications are the recognised route into and through school leadership. But choosing the right NPQ, applying, and succeeding on the programme takes preparation and support. This service helps your staff navigate the NPQ pathway and gives your school the wider leadership development that complements it.
Below, we explain what our NPQ preparation and leadership pathway support involves, and how it helps you grow leaders through the NPQ route.
What Is NPQ Preparation & Leadership Pathway Support?
It’s practical support that helps your staff prepare for and get the most from National Professional Qualifications. We help candidates choose the right NPQ, prepare strong applications, and build the underpinning knowledge and skills, and we support schools to develop leaders around the NPQ framework.
We’re not an NPQ delivery provider; we complement the NPQ pathway with preparation, coaching, and wider leadership development tailored to your staff and your succession plans.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits aspiring and current leaders considering an NPQ, and schools planning leadership development. Trusts often use it to build a leadership pipeline.
Many schools ask for it to help staff choose and prepare for the right NPQ, support those on a programme, or build leadership development around the NPQ framework.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Choosing the right NPQ for each person
- Understanding the NPQ frameworks and routes
- Preparing strong NPQ applications
- Building the underpinning leadership knowledge
- Supporting staff during their NPQ
- Complementing NPQs with wider development
- Building a leadership pipeline and succession plan
- Coaching and mentoring for aspiring leaders
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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Choose the right pathway
We help each person pick the NPQ that fits their role and ambitions, so time and funding are well spent.
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Prepare staff to succeed
We build the knowledge and confidence that help candidates get the most from their NPQ.
3
Complement the NPQ
We add coaching and wider development around the NPQ, so learning translates into practice.
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Build your leadership pipeline
We help you develop leaders at every level and plan for succession.
5
Support current candidates
Staff on an NPQ get extra support to apply their learning and stay on track.
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Grow leaders from within
A structured pathway develops the leaders your school and trust need for the future.
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Get value from the pathway
We help you use the NPQ route strategically, as part of a coherent leadership plan.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We tailor the support to your staff and your succession plans, so it strengthens your leadership pipeline.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Complements the NPQ pathway
We prepare and support candidates around the NPQ frameworks, working alongside delivery providers.
Tailored to your leaders
We shape support around each person’s role, stage, and ambitions.
Whole-team, group, or individual
Support a cohort, a leadership pipeline, or coach one aspiring leader. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We understand the NPQ pathway and how to build strong leaders around it. Our support helps you grow leaders, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree the support, dates, and delivery that suit your school, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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