CPD opportunities – senior and executive leaders

Our development opportunities for senior leaders include the chance to:

Each opportunity has specific eligibility requirements. To register interest or for more information about any of the following opportunities, email [email protected].

See also CPD events for senior leaders

Police leadership programme – stage five (executive leaders) opportunities

Syndicate director

As a syndicate director, you'll work with a syndicate of participants for each module of stage five of the police leadership programme. In this role you can gain an invaluable personal development and learning experience. You'll also be able to apply your learning to support the development of your staff and teams in your home force.

Eligibility

The syndicate director role is suitable for chief officers and police staff working at a similar level. You should be able to demonstrate evidence of:

strategic leadership development and experience
significant strategic command experience of major incidents or investigations (for the operational and partnership leadership module)

Training is provided for syndicate directors where required.

Role and responsibilities

You'll be responsible for ensuring participants can maximise their learning and development from the programme, by balancing challenge and support through individual, group and cohort exercises, reflections and discussions.

You'll also provide assessment support at each module, overseen by the assessment co-directors.

Each module is delivered in a four-week block of learning, using a blend of residential, virtual and directed learning. You'll need on be on-site for around eight to 10 days during each four-week period.

Module director

Working with the service director, module directors support the College to design and prepare the programme. This role provides a unique opportunity to work closely with a team of syndicate directors and delegates from across the service.

Eligibility

The module director role is suitable for chief constables, deputy chief constables and police staff working at a similar level. The role may be of interest to National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) leads in the module areas.

Role and responsibilities

Working with the service director and the College, you'll take responsibility for the preparation and delivery of one of the following modules.

Module two – personal and inclusive leadership.
Module three – organisational leadership.
Module four – operational and partnership leadership.

Modules are delivered in four-week blocks. You must attend the full delivery of your module and ideally for more than one intake to ensure consistency over time. You'll need to be on-site for around eight to 10 days during each four-week period.

Deliver leadership events

As a service associate, you'll work with the College to jointly develop and deliver leadership learning events. Delivering leadership learning events will give you:

first-hand experience of the latest training and learning
networking opportunities with other senior and executive leaders in policing from across the country
the opportunity to challenge your thinking and gain new perspectives on what works for leadership development in policing
a chance to develop your training delivery skills through on-the-job coaching and from a trainer skills development programme if needed – including the opportunity to achieve the award in education and training (AET)
a change to influence the College's leadership offer and approach to implementation

Eligibility

This role is available to senior and executive leaders in policing with a proven track record in demonstrating exemplary leadership skills and achieving successful outcomes.

About becoming an associate

Senior selection assessor

Entry onto some programmes is dependent on performance at a national assessment centre. In this role, you'll objectively assess candidates' performance at the national assessment centre or the development centre that forms part of the police leadership programme – stage 5 (executive leaders).

Eligibility

To become a senior selection assessor you must be a police officer or member of staff with a minimum of one year's experience of effectively performing in the target rank or role.

You must also complete the initial assessor briefing (IAB), which is a two-day course. To book a place on the IAB, email [email protected].

After you have successfully completed the IAB you will be emailed to confirm your availability to assess at a scheduled assessment centre. Each assessment centre requires your commitment for four consecutive days. Assessment centres are held at our Harperley Hall site.

Fast Track for serving constables assessor

For this role you must either:

be a substantive superintendent, chief superintendent, chief officer, or a member of police staff working at a similar level
have completed the high potential development scheme, Fast Track programme for serving constables programme, or direct entry programme, and be a substantive inspector or chief inspector

Fast Track for inspector to superintendent assessor

For this role you must be a substantive superintendent, chief superintendent, chief officer or police staff equivalent.

Police leadership programme – stage 5 (executive leaders) assessor

For this role you must be a substantive chief police officer or police staff member.

Subject matter expert for assessment centre exercise design

In this role, you'll help to design exercises for selection and assessment processes.

Our selection and assessment team is responsible for the design, delivery and quality assurance of several senior-level selection and assessment processes. These include the:

police leadership programme – stage 5 (executive leaders) module one development centre
Fast Track programme for serving constables assessment centre

Throughout the design process, the team seeks involvement from police officers and police staff at the appropriate levels, as well as key stakeholders. This helps to ensure the relevance, accuracy and currency of the exercises.

Role and responsibilities

As a design subject matter expert, you could be asked to:

attend events to advise on the content
draft exercises
attend a pilot to act as a mock candidate to help test the effectiveness of draft exercises

Your involvement as a subject matter expert from within the police service underpins the entire design process. It helps us to ensure that the assessment processes focus appropriately on the critical issues for the next generation of police leaders.

You'll have the opportunity to discuss issues within the design with peers across the service, and to develop an understanding of how the national assessment processes are designed.

Mentoring

See our mentoring information for details on:

peer mentoring for chief officers
reverse mentoring resources for forces
mentoring for senior leaders from underrepresented groups