Assistant Manager Vocational

London - UK

Yearly Salary: GBP 30001 - 35000

Posted on: 16 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Based on-site at HMP Wormwood Scrubs As a VocationalAssistant Managerit will be your responsibility for leading and developing a team approach to the delivery of a high quality service to learners. You will support the Education Manager with effective management of the Vocational curriculum ensuring needs of learners and employers are met.

You will lead on quality assurance and improvement developing and encouraging an innovative and problem-solving approach to the work of the tutors in order to raise standards and meet challenging targets in line with performance indicators.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Level 5 or above Teaching Qualification
Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance or be willing to work towards
Evidence of continuous professional development together with the ability to develop and manage an achievement-focused team.
Persuasive and supportive leadership and staff management skills.
The ability to identify and implement continuous improvements to the curriculum in line with the needs and demands of learners and employers.
An innovative approach and proactive style together with highly developed communication skills and the natural ability to influence others.
Clear understanding of the OFSTED framework (EIF) with the ability to meet all standards.
Significant teaching experience
Successful experience of managing curriculum development and change quality systems processes and the performance of teaching staff in ways which have improved learner outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

You will be accountable to the Education Manager for the effective management of the curriculum and to take the establishment lead for quality assurance and improvement within your curriculum area.
The management team has responsibility for day to day operation of Education Department. This includes relates specifically to management of learners particularly their induction allocation to classes and conduct within the department.
You will maintain and develop positive internal and external partnerships for the benefit of prisoners and attend meetings as required by the Education Manager cascading information as required.
Developing and encouraging an innovative and problem-solving approach to the work of the tutors in order to raise standards and meet challenging targets in line with performance indicators relating to recruitment retention achievement and student satisfaction.
You will support the Education Manager to agree and set targets with staff members to ensure both contractual obligations are met and exceeded and monitor these using People Pluss appraisal and professional development procedures.
Managing teaching and support staff using the full range of PeoplePlus HR strategies in order to maximise student success and the efficiency of the provision.
For more responsibilities please refer to the job description....

Due to the nature and scope of this role a driving licence and access to your own transport is essential.

For full details of the role and the person specification please review the job description orIf you would like to speak to the recruitment team before you apply please email any questions toand one of the team will come back to you. If you wish to apply please ensure this is done via the apply now button. Applications cannot be accepted via email.

Who We Are

Here are PeoplePlus we are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons.

Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.

With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community we bring passion experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services.

We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who were trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences were working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions. Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime.

We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus the right principles are in place but more than that it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that theres real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

Our Benefits

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

30 days annual leave for Teaching roles / 25 days for support roles

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

A paid volunteering day each year

Enhanced Maternity scheme

Sharesave
scheme

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Holiday purchase scheme

Pension
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Life
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Testimonials

What I love about working in a prison environment is that no 2 days are the same. You are a number of different roles such as counsellor adviser and at times the person that makes a difference in that individuals life.

There are also good career opportunities for an individual. I started as a supply tutor and I am now an assistant manager. At PeoplePlus you are given the opportunities to gain new skills and qualifications to enable you to be the best version of yourself.

I have been lucky enough to work in a number of roles within PeoplePlus within the prison education sector each of which has provided variety challenge and immense job satisfaction. The company recognises values and rewards the hard work of its employees providing great professional development and career progression opportunities as well as a great range of perks and support for wellbeing.

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