HEALTH-SAFE COMPETENCE OF THE HEAD OF AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AS A COMPONENT OF HIS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

The article updates the issue of preserving the health of schoolchildren in the educational process, since the number of sick children in our country is growing due to the deterioration and instability of the socio-economic, ecological situation, unsatisfactory living conditions of part of the population, which reduces the adaptive capabilities of the child's body and its resistance to the action of various harmful factors of competence. It is determined that the health-safe competence of the head of a general secondary education institution is a component of his professional competence; it is the ability and readiness of the head to plan, organize and implement measures aimed at preserving and strengthening the health of students, teachers and other members of the school staff. The structure of the health-preserving competence of the head of the educational institution should include the following main components: motivational and value (interests, motives, goals, beliefs, attitudes, value orientations for the implementation of health-preserving activities); epistemological (a set of psychological, pedagogical and managerial knowledge, in particular about: regulatory and legal support for the development of personal health through education; principles of institution management from the perspective of health preservation; foundations of human health, features of the formation of physical, mental, social, spiritual health at different stages of human ontogenesis; components of a healthy lifestyle; features of the use of health-preserving means, forms, methods, technologies, etc.); procedural (a set of professional skills, the quality of assimilation and generalization of which are necessary for the teacher to carry out health-preserving activities) and reflective (self-analysis, self-assessment and correction of the results of one's own activities, the ability to self-education and self-development for the effective implementation of health-preserving activities). The article presents the results of a study of the attitude of school leaders to the problem of preserving students' health in the educational process, which allowed us to identify the degree of systematic work of the school on the problem of preserving students' health; to consider the specifics of the school's interaction with the external environment, to identify difficulties in working with partners to preserve children's health; to find out the peculiarities of the perception of the problems of preserving schoolchildren's health by school leaders, their understanding of the real and desired activities of the teaching staff to preserve schoolchildren's health. The results will allow us to begin substantiating the conditions for the development of health-preserving competence and developing programmatic and methodological support for the training and retraining of teachers and school leaders for health-preserving activities.