The Role
Leads the college’s quality improvement and assurance framework across all funding streams. The role oversees inspection readiness, quality cycles, strategic performance indicators, learner and apprenticeship outcomes, and continuous improvement. It collaborates with curriculum management teams, coaches and develops staff, and promotes high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment. As a member of the Corporate Leadership Group, the Director provides strategic leadership to improve educational provision and performance.
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Permanent contract, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Interview Date: 16 Oct
The Director of Quality will be responsible for the college's quality improvement and assurance framework, including readiness for inspection to ensure the college meets its strategic performance indicators. The successful candidate, through strategic leadership and collaboration with curriculum management teams, will create a culture of continuous improvement. The Director of Quality will be a member of the Corporate Leadership Group and will strategically lead the quality cycle and associated approaches, for all funding streams, to ensure that all learners and apprentices access a high-quality education experience, improve performance outcomes and realise the college’s ambition of ‘real skills, real futures’.
Bath College is an inclusive education and training community, providing learning for people with a wide range of abilities from a far-reaching area, from entry level to Level 5 programmes. We are committed to meeting the needs of all our students. This is a very exciting time to join the College.
Interview Date: 16 Oct
The Director of Quality will be responsible for the college's quality improvement and assurance framework, including readiness for inspection to ensure the college meets its strategic performance indicators. The successful candidate, through strategic leadership and collaboration with curriculum management teams, will create a culture of continuous improvement. The Director of Quality will be a member of the Corporate Leadership Group and will strategically lead the quality cycle and associated approaches, for all funding streams, to ensure that all learners and apprentices access a high-quality education experience, improve performance outcomes and realise the college’s ambition of ‘real skills, real futures’.
Bath College is an inclusive education and training community, providing learning for people with a wide range of abilities from a far-reaching area, from entry level to Level 5 programmes. We are committed to meeting the needs of all our students. This is a very exciting time to join the College.
If you feel you can make a positive contribution, please complete the application form, making sure you detailing how your qualifications, skills and experience meet the requirements of the role.
The job posting can close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.
The successful candidate will have:
- Exceptionally high expectations of both staff and learners with a desire to continually improve the quality of education
- Strong people management and highly effective communication skills
- Excellent understanding of key performance outcomes including achievement, value added, wider performance measures and possess strong analytical skills
- An in-depth knowledge of teaching, learning and assessment practice and pedagogy
- An excellent understanding of inspection practice and the renewed inspection framework.
Please see attached for the full Job Description
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience in senior roles.
- Cert.Ed./PGCE or equivalent teacher training qualification.
- At least 3 years' experience in teaching and training related roles.
- At least 3 years' experience in Quality and/or Improving Teaching and Learning related roles.
- Experience of successfully raising standards, improving the quality of provision and/or coaching and developing staff.
Please see attached for the full Person Specification
Staff Benefits
- Generous paid holiday entitlement of 35 days, exclusive of College closure days and public holidays. Pro rata for part time roles.
- One Selfie Day per year
- Contributory salary pension scheme (Local Government)
- Continuing Professional Development for all staff
- Laptop Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Private Healthcare Scheme
- £500 Refer a friend and earn a reward
- Subsidised cafes - at both campuses
- Employee Assistance Programme – Staff have access to this programme. It is a free and strictly confidential short-term counselling and support service (up to six meetings after an initial assessment session with a qualified counselor)
- The College offers an eye sight test for anyone who meets the criteria as described within the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations.
- Progressive family friendly policies (exceeding statutory requirements) that supports a health work/life balance, all staff are entitled to request flexible working.
- Discounted treatments at the Academy, Bath Campus
- Free parking at the Somer Valley Campus in Radstock
About
Welcome to Bath College, a vibrant and successful College with two campuses, one in the centre of Bath and one in the rural setting of Radstock.We pride ourselves on providing training for the region’s future workforce by offering courses in both vocational and traditional academic subjects to students from across Bath, Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and beyond.
Skills Required
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in senior roles
- Cert.Ed., PGCE, or equivalent teacher training qualification
- At least 3 years of experience in teaching and training-related roles
- At least 3 years of experience in quality improvement and/or improving teaching and learning roles
- Experience successfully raising standards and improving the quality of provision
- Experience coaching and developing staff
- Strong people management and communication skills
- Strong analytical skills and understanding of achievement, value-added, and wider performance measures
- In-depth knowledge of teaching, learning, assessment practice, and pedagogy
- Excellent understanding of inspection practice and the renewed inspection framework
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The Company
What We Do
Bath College is a further education college in the centre of Bath, Somerset and in Westfield, Somerset, England. It provides innovative training to develop skills, inspire individuals, enrich the wider community and encourage all to achieve and progress.
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