Role: Quality Lead (Education)
Salary: £30 - £35k per annum - dependent on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full Time (37.5 hrs pw)
Location: Ashton-under-Lyne (OL6 7PT) or Manchester (M1 3HY)
For over three decades, we have been dedicated to supporting individuals and employers across the UK. As a nationwide market leader, we have assisted over 13,000 people in the past year alone to retrain, embark on new career paths, or establish their own businesses.
As the Quality Lead (Education), your primary responsibility is to uphold exceptional education standards across ESFA funded contracts. You'll achieve this by implementing robust quality controls, maintaining standards, and ensuring alignment with the criteria of funding and awarding bodies, Ofsted guidelines, and recognised best practices. If you're dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of education and thrive in maintaining standards, we invite you to join our team.
Apply now to play a crucial role in driving educational excellence!
What you’ll do
- Setting and maintaining standards – set clear and high expectations of all staff involved with responsibility for learning, including managers and delivery staff
- Monitoring and evaluation – conduct formal and informal OTLA and scrutiny of learner work, learner documents and learner voice to identify good practice and areas for development
- Effective teaching, learning and assessment – ensure consistently high-quality learning experiences to engage, include, support and challenge learners, using appropriate learning resources and pedagogies
- Outcomes for learners – ensure that provision meets learners’ needs and enables them to make good progress from their individual starting points toward individual next steps
- Quality Improvement – co-ordinate quality improvement activity to address findings of SAR, setting and evaluating actions and reporting regularly to the AEB Board
- Quality assurance – support and challenge partners and supply chain colleagues to ensure that the standards set for Standguide prime contract provision are consistently applied to all provision, including provision subcontracted to other providers in our supply chain and provision delivered by Standguide as a subcontractor for other primes
- Maximise income by ensuring that funding body rules and quality standards are consistently met.
What you’ll need
- Degree or equivalent in relevant subject area
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching qualification minimum Level 5
- Curriculum design and planning experience
- Experience in development and implementation of quality improvement plans
- Experience in development and delivery of CPD for teaching staff
- Experience in meeting educational quality standards and working within the Ofsted - Education Inspection Framework
- Ability to inspire, support and motivate teachers
- Ability to articulate a vision for outstanding education and lead by example.
Overseas equivalent qualifications will be accepted.
We welcome applicants with lived experience and encourage applications that reflect the relevance to the post.
Benefits
- CPD - Broad range of internal training to enhance your knowledge and skills
- Comprehensive Manager & Leader training programme - internal
- Generous pension scheme, with the option to opt out
- Company health plan subject to successful completion of probation period
- 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
- 5-10 sick day per year paid.
Join us at Standguide and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on individuals' lives and businesses nationwide.
Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our staff and customers. We thrive on creating positive working relationships, free from discrimination.
Successful candidates will be subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check.
For the full job description and person specification, please email Amy at recruitment @standguide.co.uk.
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