Quality Manager

The Learning & Enterprise College Bexley is a vibrant; financially secure adult education institution responsible for delivering high quality outcomes for students, residents and employers, while contributing to the strategic objectives laid out in Bexley Council’s corporate priorities for adult learning, employment and wellbeing. 

The college consists of approx. 1000 courses with 13,000 enrolments through 5,000 students. As part of an innovative restructure, we are organising our Curriculum Leadership in order to ensure that it is fit for purpose. As a result, we have a variety of exciting new leadership vacancies available. 

The purpose of this post is to manage the development and implementation of quality improvement strategies, frameworks and procedures across Adult Education provision, to raise standards and ensure outstanding quality of provision. The role involves ensuring that provision remains compliant with external regulatory frameworks, ensuring the effective and efficient operation of quality assurance and improvement procedures, and managing relationships with curriculum staff to promote sharing of best practice and to ensure high standards.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a firm understanding of the delivery and assessment of learner responsive provision in FE, including how this impacts upon quality improvement processes, and experience of successfully managing the implementation of quality improvement strategies within colleges of further education. For an individual with a proven capacity to work innovatively and independently, to tight timescales, and with a high level of personal and professional integrity, this position represents an excellent opportunity to move into the field of quality assurance and improvement and to gain an insight into managing the quality of FE provision at the College.

Appointment to this posts will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service 

What we offer:

• Our Choices Flexible Benefits Package includes lease car, and cash options to the value of £2,322 per annum
• Career Average Revalued Earnings Pension Scheme
• Performance Related Pay
• 25 days Annual Leave (rising to 28 after 5 years’ service) plus Bank Holiday Entitlement
• Opportunities for flexible working with excellent ICT facilities
• View more about our employment deal here

About us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

Your Application:

Closing Date for your application: Monday 24th June 2019

Please visit https://jobs.bexley.gov.uk/wrlive to find out more and apply.  CVs will not be accepted unless they are submitted with a completed application form.

Interviews are anticipated to take place from Monday 8th July 2019

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.