Head of Quality Assurance

6 months ago


Coventry, United Kingdom PET-Xi Full time

**Employee Benefits**:

- Company Car - Electric
- Vitality private medical insurance
- Up to 30 days holiday (25, rising incrementally, one day per year, to 30 days after five years’ service).
- Holiday sale/buyback scheme
- Family Friendly PET-Xi paid events (Christmas and Summer events etc.)
- Expenses (Travel, Hotels *where required, Overnight food allowance)
- Death in service cover.
- Critical Illness Insurance.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Flexible start and finish times (9-5/8-4)
- Study Support.
- Free Eye Tests.
- Company Pension Scheme
- Free Parking
- Discount on food and drink at Metropolis restaurant
- Weekly Employee reward schemes
- Long service awards

**Purpose**:
You will be monitoring the quality of delivery and maintaining the awarding body requirements to ensure that the company maintains centre approvals, scheme approvals and direct claims status. This allows the company to certificate immediately upon learner achievement within the Skills division.

You will be Implementing robust quality arrangements and cycles across the business to manage and monitor the risk of financial clawback, quality of delivery, contractual requirements, maintaining an effective reputation within the sector and maintaining a minimum “Good” inspection grade within the Ofsted regime.

**Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for the quality and compliance of all delivery of funded and non-funded provision within PET-Xi financial, quality, reputational and regulatory ensuring this leads to continuous improvement across the business and manages the level of risk.
- Reporting to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and governors on all aspects of Quality and Compliance.
- Overseeing the company wide quality process to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
- To be responsible for ensuring that PET-Xi meets the requirements of the Awarding Bodies/Organisations.
- To be responsible for ensuring PET-Xi works towards an ‘outstanding’ result in any Ofsted inspection.
- To be responsible for ensuring PET-Xi meets all ESFA audit requirements whilst minimising any funding risks and maintaining less than a 5% error rate.
- To ensure that PET-Xi is fully prepared for any Ofsted Inspections that may arise and is in a strong position to gain an overall rating of “Good” or ‘Outstanding’
- To ensure the management of the annual Self-Assessment Report and bi-annual review, working with the Quality Team and operational teams to maintain a consultative approach to report development.
- To represent PET-Xi as an Ofsted nominee.
- To develop and maintain quality improvement strategies which have a maximum impact on improvements across all divisions of the business
- To analyse information gained from internal quality and audit activities to ensure early identification and mitigation of risks.
- Reporting and maintaining the corporate risk register to the ELT and Governors.
- To ensure that PET-Xi satisfies and exceeds the requirements of the Awarding Bodies and End Point Assessment Organisation’s (EPAOs) with which it works.
- To develop and maintain efficient and effective quality systems which meet the requirements of external quality assurance and regulatory bodies.
- To oversee the management of the internal quality assurance and audit cycles, ensuring clear targets are set and achieved of the quality requirements across the company, whilst identifying opportunities for personal growth and development.
- To oversee the management and preparation for ALL internal and external funding provider financial audits, working with the compliance team to maintain effective controls and analysis to minimise risk to funding and clawback.
- To widen the attainment of quality standard approvals.
- Ensure systems are in place for effective monitoring, measuring, and reporting of health and safety, Safeguarding and GDPR issues to the ELT & Governors.
- Manage the Quality Observation process including deep dives, drop ins, standardisation, training and moderation
- Analysing audit data to identify areas for improvement in the quality systems and prepare improvement plans.
- Implementing a quality culture throughout the company
- To oversee and monitor the day to day development of the QIP, ensuring it is a live document.

**Person Specification**:
**General Qualities**:

- Strong understanding of the Ofsted requirements and the Education Inspection Framework
- Experience of managing Awarding body and funding requirements
- Experience of co-ordinating quality standards approval visits
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of developing a Self-Assessment report
- Ability to analyse information to enable the early identification and mitigation of risks
- Ability to communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to respond to frequent demands of multiple customers/partners (internal and external)
- Experience of working in partnership with employers and



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