Head of Regulatory

**TRUSTED TEACHING**

**HELP US ENSURE THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOMES FOR LEARNERS IN SCOTLAND**

We are the General Teaching Council for Scotland. We register and regulate the teaching profession as a safeguard for the quality of education in Scotland. We work to maintain and enhance trust in teaching. We are a statutory body meaning our role is set out in law - we are independent of government.

**Why work for us?**
- **Make a difference **to the quality of learning and teaching for children, young people and adult learners in Scotland.
- **Flexible working **is our default and is open to all. You will have flexibility over when and where you work, depending on the requirements of the role. Most of our people choose to primarily work from home but office space is available if preferred. You will be expected to travel to our office in Edinburgh to attend collaborative events and as the role requires. Please talk to us about your individual flexibility preferences.
- **Learning **is one of our core principles. We will support your learning and development to help you perform at your best in your role and to develop your future career.
- **Annual leave **entitlement is a generous 41 days.
- **Local Government Pension Scheme **is open to all employees.

**Our Values**
- **Trust and Respect** - All of us are equally important. We seek out and listen to others’ views. We support each other and build positive working relationships.
- **Integrity **- We do what we say we will. We deliver on our plans and effectively communicate with others. We are committed to continually learning and improving.
- **Social Justice** - We embrace diversity. We understand the importance of positive wellbeing and seek to support each other and our registrants. We want you to feel like you belong.

**Role Information**

Head of Regulatory Investigations

**Role Details**

**Role title**

Head of Regulatory Investigations

**Unit**

Regulatory Investigations

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Grade**

11

**Salary range**

£56,700 to £63,000

**Responsible to**

Strategic Director

**Responsible for**

Regulatory Investigations Manager

Regulatory Solicitor

**Role Purpose**

**Head of Regulatory Investigations **at GTC Scotland is part of our extended leadership team. Working in close collaboration with the other Heads, Strategic Directors and Chief Executive, the role has profile and impact with overall responsibility for our regulatory function (our statutory function to investigate the fitness to teach of registrants and applicants for registration).

As an ambassador for GTC Scotland internally and externally, this role involves significant leadership responsibilities of others and tasks ultimately ensuring that GTC Scotland delivers our statutory functions and meets the needs of the teaching profession, our partners and the public.

**Role Outline**

**Responsibilities of All GTC Scotland Employees**
- Commit to GTC Scotland’s values and principles
- Understand that our communities improve through the provision of strong and effective education, and you have a role in helping that happen
- Take ownership and responsibility through your work
- Be self-aware, understanding your own strengths and areas for development
- Be a restless learner, seeking opportunities for your own growth
- Deliver work effectively to ensure impact
- Work collaboratively to share and develop expertise
- Ask for help when you need it
- Be flexible and adaptive to meet our needs and those of our registrants
- Actively find and develop solutions to issues

**Responsibilities of All GTC Scotland Leaders and Managers**
- Have high expectations of yourself, colleagues and the organisation
- Grow and empower others, scaffold the learning of others
- Effectively coach others, ensuring we deliver with impact
- Be a highly effective communicator
- Effectively monitor and manage performance
- Strive for continual improvement

**Role Specific Responsibilities**
- Lead our regulatory investigation function, inspiring and motivating those that work in it as their senior leader.
- Lead function-wide planning, performance monitoring and reporting and hold the senior operational oversight, ensuring we are getting where we need to and achieving best practice.
- Identify, manage and mitigate risk in your functional area
- Actively horizon scan to develop our regulatory vision and ensure we are informed about, and aimed towards achieving, best regulatory practice, looking outwards to identify areas where our regulatory work and impact in the public interest could be improved by influencing and/or collaborating externally.
- Create, communicate and realise function-wide strategy, including identifying changes required to our Fitness to Teach Rules to improve our regulatory process and then making these changes happen in collaboration with the Head of Policy.
- Inspire change in how we carry out our regulatory work to improve our organisational performance and impact and lea