Teaching and Learning Quality Assurer

Summary

Join Corndel's Excellence Team as a Teaching and Learning Quality Assurer, playing a key role in developing world-class education and learner experience. You will collaborate with the team to evaluate teaching quality, provide feedback to colleagues, and ensure compliance with regulations. Responsibilities include observing teaching sessions, reviewing learner work, and facilitating best practice sharing. The ideal candidate possesses a teaching qualification, experience in quality assurance within education, and strong communication skills. Corndel offers a remote working environment, unlimited leave, flexible working, and a pension.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Pension
• Unlimited leave
• Flexible working
• Remote working