Teaching and Learning Quality Assurer - Maternity Cover FTC

Corndel is seeking a values-driven, committed and skilled individual for a key role in our Excellence, Compliance and Learner Experience Team. We are defining and developing excellence in everything we do, building on our strong foundations and reputation, as we continue to grow and diversify. You will join a company which is breaking new ground and offering a more intelligent, dynamic, and achievable way of developing people through world-class programmes of vocational learning.

As part of the Quality Assurance team, you will play a key role in developing our world-class education provision and learner experience, working in close collaboration with the Excellence, Compliance and Learner Experience Team and other colleagues across Corndel. This role has a particular focus on quality assuring and developing our teaching and training and its impact on learner progress and achievement. This includes carrying out observations of teaching and learning using our Excellence Rubric, evaluating the impact of our provision through work scrutiny and other evidence, and delivering coaching and professional development to colleagues to increase their effectiveness and impact on our learners.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team, united in a core purpose to deliver excellence for our learners, employers, ourselves and each other. You will need to evidence an alignment with the values of Corndel and an understanding of the transformational impact of education.

Responsibilities include:

• Drive and deliver excellence in all you do.
• Work in close collaboration with all members of the Excellence, Compliance and Learner Experience Team.
• Play a key role in evaluating the Quality of Education through Excellence Reviews and Deep Dives.
• Observe and evaluate the quality of teaching and training, both live and recorded, in 1-2-1 sessions, workshops, induction, and other provision as it develops.
• Provide effective feedback to colleagues to develop their pedagogy and practice and improve their impact on our learners.
• Carry out reviews of learner files, work scrutiny and evaluate other evidence on learner progress and achievement.
• Work efficiently and collaboratively across Corndel. Facilitate the sharing of best practice across the business.
• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders in the learner journey, seek and analyse feedback, and work in collaboration to agree, implement and monitor improvement activities.
• Challenge existing expectations and ways of working to create excellence and benefit our learners.
• Have, or quickly develop, a deep understanding of everything about apprenticeships, including compliance, delivery, curriculum, and quality.
• Support the Excellence Team to develop and embed Corndel’s Continuous Improvement Framework and Excellence Improvement Plan to ensure that appropriate actions are taken to drive excellence across all our provision.
• Support the Director of Excellence in creating, developing, and implementing our Excellence and Learner Experience Strategy.
• Work with the team and key stakeholders to ensure Corndel is thoroughly prepared for external inspection and regulatory activities.
• Ensure Corndel meets the required standards for Safeguarding, Prevent and British Values.
• Be committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and contribute to our mission of making Corndel a fully inclusive organisation.
• Carry out other duties in keeping with the nature of the post as directed by and agreed with the Director of Excellence, Compliance and Learner Experience.

About You:

• You’re an enthusiastic self-starter – keen to help transform the way organisations develop their people.
• You value inclusivity, being supportive and respectful of others.
• You have a can-do and upbeat attitude to work, colleagues, learners, and clients; open to change and take a collaborative approach to challenges.
• You operate with integrity, trust and professionalism and empower others to do so.
• You have high expectations and aspirations for self and others, demonstrating a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
• You are self-manager who can get things done and work systematically and thoroughly; a natural completer/finisher with the ability to prioritise, plan contingencies and adapt to changes at short notice.
• You are a positive, optimistic and enthusiastic team-player with a strong growth mind-set.
• You are ambitious for self, team, and the business as a whole.
• You are solutions focussed with an inquisitive mind, able to find things out and problem solve with detailed attention to both the outcomes and the inputs to secure them.
• You possess strong personal and professional values that align closely with our values.

Experience and Skills:

Essential:

• A teaching qualification.
• Experience of observing, evaluating and improving the quality of teaching and/or training.
• Experience of developing and delivering resources and training to improve the quality of teaching/delivery.
• Experience within a further education and skills or related educational setting.
• Excellent understanding of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework.
• Experience of working within a regulated environment, ideally with experience of Ofsted inspection.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise well, work at speed and under pressure.
• Ability to motivate and inspire people to adopt a growth mind set.
• A highly-effective communicator who writes and listens well, can explain things clearly and presents information in a simple and impactful way.
• Ability to make evidenced-based judgements.
• Good attention to detail with a ‘get things right first approach’.
• Proven ability to set and meet deadlines in a calm and efficient way.
• Sound judgement and able to escalate issues as and when required.
• Ability to analyse and interpret a range of data to inform judgements and recommendations.
• Ability to think strategically to align recommendations and solutions to future team and business priorities.
• Experience of quality improvement activities, including auditing, and/or evaluating quality through a range of evidence.

Desirable:

• Experience in creating and leading training sessions and workshops to support operations in enhancing teaching skills and methodologies.
• Lead initiatives to integrate new teaching technologies and methodologies into the curriculum.
• Identify potential risks to the quality of education and develop mitigation strategies.
• Track record of providing mentorship and coaching to new and existing team members to foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
• Develop, review, and update policies and procedures to ensure they reflect best practices and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of external quality kitemarks such as Matrix, Investors in People, etc.

Why join Corndel?

• We’re committed to having a fully inclusive, welcoming and safe culture and always striving to improve.
• We provide an environment that is truly flexible and supportive, somewhere you will have autonomy over your role.
• We’re a leader in our field, with quality and excellence at the heart of what we do.

As Corndel is a Disability Confident Employer, we make sure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job will be offered an interview. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, when submitting your application, please select the appropriate option to let us know that you have a disability. If you have a disability that might affect any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments you need before any interview or assessment. We’ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place and make the application process a more positive experience.

Corndel is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment practices, and will undertake pre-employment checks on the successful candidate, including Enhanced DBS Disclosure and a Barred List Check.