Regional Quality Lead

Location: South Central (Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Aylesbury, Winchester, Woking, Isle of Wight)

Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Interviews to take place on Wednesday 11th July in Aylesbury

Milton Keynes College offender learning provision have a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Quality Lead to join our South Central Education team.

As a Regional Quality Lead, you will support the development and implementation of quality improvement processes and practices for use within the South Central OLASS region. The Regional Quality Lead is responsible for driving quality initiatives whilst supporting managers, practitioners and teaching staff within the prison education system.

Regional Quality Lead are responsible for line managing the regions Advanced Learning Practitioners, Supporting IQRs (Internal Quality Review), supporting managers, overseeing quality improvement plans as well as the development and training of teaching staff across the South Central Region.

The Regional Quality Lead is a key role for the region to drive excellence, and lead on quality improvement in the region by developing, implementing & monitoring areas for improvement and deliver advancement in learner success.

The requirement of this role is to work across the whole prison estate, on all wings where education is delivered.

More about the rewards:

35 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas to New Year closure and UK Bank Holidays

Amazing discounts with NUS card or Blue Light Card , ranging from Eating Out, Shopping and Fashion, Health and Fitness, Music, Technology, Travel and Entertainment

Access to an employee wellbeing platform with options to book free activities such as yoga, relaxation, boot camp, personal training and a health and wellbeing news hub

Access to Teachers Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions

Busy Bee’s childcare vouchers can save working parents up to £933 per year in a variety of registered childcare, such as Nurseries, Nannies, after school activities, Summer Camps and Breakfast Clubs up the age of 15.

Access to Continued Professional Development, including professional qualifications and a variety of training courses

Save up to 32% off all bikes through our Cycle To Work Scheme

24 hours per day, 365 days per year Employee Assistant Support Programme

Plus many more…

As a successful candidate, you will:

Proven education experience with consistent outstanding practice

Evidence of providing support/training for teachers to provide high quality effective learning experiences

Hold a teaching qualification and ideally Assessor/Verifier awards.

Have a degree or equivalent qualification.

Have well developed organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Have experience of effectively implementing and managing quality improvement processes.

Leading the Self-Assessment process and a track record in the management of quality improvement with evidence of raising standards

Experience of developing strategies to improve student success, particularly in English and maths

Experience of providing training for the observation of teaching and learning and providing training for the observation team

Evidence of using the Common Inspection Framework to develop innovative staff development to promote outstanding practice

Experience of delivering high quality & innovative LDD curriculum

More about the College:

Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.

Milton Keynes College is a committed safer recruitment employer. We take extreme care in ensuring the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions therefore undergo a stringent vetting process to include DBS for all positions.