Quality Assurance Advisor - Education

The Aurora Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of SEND educational services in the UK seeks Quality Assurance Advisors to enhance quality systems across multiple sites. The role involves assessing compliance, leading innovation, and ensuring best practices in education. Candidates should have leadership experience in education and a strong understanding of SEN regulations. The position offers competitive pay, training opportunities, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Training and Development

Perkbox Discounts

Enhanced Annual Leave

Company Sick Pay

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Referral Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership roles within education settings.
• Detailed knowledge of regulations and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Assessing schools and colleges against statutory standards.
• Leading quality innovation and best practice implementation.

Skills

Leadership

Knowledge of SEN

Relationship Management

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Organised

Tenacity

Education

Headteacher

Deputy Headteacher

Assistant Headteacher

SENCO

Tools

Quality Information Systems

Databases

Excel

Job description

Overview and Responsibilities

Quality Assurance Advisor- Education

Location: Regional – remote/home base with regular travel across the Northern sites*

Salary: £45,000-£50,000 dependent upon experience

Hours: Full- time (40hrs per week)

The Aurora Group

We’re one of the largest providers of SEND educational and care services in the country, supporting over 1,200 children, young people and adults, and employing over 1,500 staff spread across 27 services around England.

Due to the continued growth of our company we’re looking for twoQuality Assurance Advisors to join our quality team. You will support school/college improvement and ensure Aurora’s Quality and Assurance systems, policies and processes are fully embedded and complied with in each of the sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Embedding the Quality Assurance framework for Aurora by effectively and regularly assessing our schools and colleges against their relevant statutory standards and ensures actions for improvement are in place.
• You will be a subject matter expert on all regulatory matters relating to the education of children and young people.
• Ensuring all services visited always have the correct and most appropriate policies and procedures relevant to registration.
• Effectively use all Quality Information Systems required for company reporting and analysis as well as ensuring all notifications and compliance reporting are completed.
• You will lead by example in the proposal of quality innovation and implementation of best practice ideas.
• Ensuring that Site Leadership Teams are trained and kept informed of all relevant changes to Quality Assurance frameworks and relevant regulation.

Please note that duties will vary and you will be expected to contribute to the overall aims of the team when required. Please see the link below for our full job description:

Job Description – Quality Assurance Advisor

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Must have undertaken Leadership roles within an Education Setting e.g. Headteacher, Deputy or Assistant Headteacher or SENCO with Leadership responsibilities.
• Knowledge of SEN
• A credible subject matter expert who will lead by example, at all times demonstrating the Aurora values and standards.
  • Detailed knowledge of regulations e.g. Independent School Standards and Ofsted
  • Knowledge of all registration requirements for all Aurora Group services
  • Knowledge of legislation/regulation for the management of sensitive and confidential data.
  • Knowledge of Quality and Risk systems and organisational requirements
  • Knowledge of reporting systems including relevant databases and excel
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills able to work collegiately and make change happen
• Excellent, clear written and verbal communication
• Has tenacity, resilience and is willing to constructively challenge at all levels.
• Is organised and process driven able to use powerful assessment tools
• Ability to travel (inc. overnight stays), drivers licence and access to a car
• *our Northern sites currently include 3 sites in Lancashire, a site in Cheshire, a site in Wakefield, a site in Stoke and a site in Derby

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

Training and Development - Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.

Save money on your bills!! - With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.

Competitive Pay and Reward - Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Enhanced Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.

UK Health Cash Plan - This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

Employee Assistance Programme - Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.

Refer a friend for £1,000 - We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to Apply:

You can apply online by completing our online application form. For more information on this position please contact [e-mail]

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.