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Inspector

Estyn - His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales

Cardiff

  • £67,100 - £78,500 per year
  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
30 January 2023

Job overview

His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education and Training (HMI) - Permanent

We’re looking for the brightest and best leaders who can bring their skills, knowledge and diversity to our workforce. It’s an exciting time to join us as we take a significant role in supporting Curriculum for Wales, additional learning needs reform, improving equity and the work of the new Commision for Tertiary Education and Research as well as continue our focus on standards across education and training in Wales. Your experience will also help us plan and deliver our new inspection arrangements for 2024. You will play a vital role in making sure inspection is a positive experience for all involved.

If you’re a leader with specialist experience in one or more of the following areas of education and training, apply now:

  • primary education (experience of Foundation Learning is desirable for one of these posts)
  • secondary education
  •  mainstream independent schools
  • additional learning needs provision
  • work-based learning - apprenticeships

Welsh language skills are desirable for a number of these posts.

As an inspector, you will place learners at the heart of everything you do and the advice and recommendations you give will influence the future of education and training right across Wales.

Your work will include:

  • Leading or contributing to inspection, reporting and advice work, including inspections of individual education and training providers and broader ‘thematic’ reviews that range across a sample of provision in Wales 
  • Involvement in national developments and producing professional advice designed to inform the development of policy in your areas of expertise
  • Undertaking work designed to capture and disseminate the best practice that we see through our inspection programmes
  • Contributing to our organisational growth, development and change
  • Undertaking quality assurance of inspection reports and thematic surveys
  • Preparing and delivering initial and update training for external inspectors and events for key stakeholders
  • Being a role model for our values, acting at all times in the interest of learners
  • Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children, young people and vulnerable adults you come into contact with

Salary: £67,100 - £78,500

Hours of work: Five-day week (Monday to Friday) of 37 hours excluding lunch breaks. 

Location:  Home-based, with frequent travel required all over Wales and a regular need to be able to stay away from home for up to four nights.

If you’re interested in a unique role in Welsh education and training, head to our website to find out more or e-mail us at recruitment@estyn.gov.wales.

The closing date for applications is 10:00am on Monday, 30 January 2023

 

About Estyn - His Majesty's Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales

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Estyn is the office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales.

Estyn’s aim is to raise standards and quality in education and training in Wales through the inspection of education and training providers in Wales and through the reporting of its findings. 

Estyn is responsible for inspecting: 

• Early years provision in the non-maintained sector;
• Primary schools;
• Secondary schools;
• Special schools (including independent special schools);
• Pupil referral units;
• Independent schools;
• Further education;
• Voluntary youth agencies;
• Local education authorities (LEAs);
• Teacher education and training;
• Work-Based Learning;
• Careers Wales companies;
• The education, guidance and training elements of Jobcentre Plus Programmes;
• Adult Community-Based Learning.

As well as our inspection work, Estyn provides evidence-based advice that contributes to the development of education and lifelong learning policy in Wales.

The advice includes work commissioned annually by the Welsh Assembly Government on specific aspects of education and training.

Estyn is independent of, but funded by, the Welsh Assembly Government under Section 104 of the Government of Wales Act 1998.

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector and her staff are civil servants. In addition to employed staff and secondees, Estyn contracts with a large number of organisations and independent inspectors to carry out its maintained school inspections and some other work.

Estyn’s main office is in Cardiff with a smaller office in Mold, North Wales.

You can find out more about Estyn’s work and read our reports on our website at www.estyn.gov.uk  

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