Quality Assurance Lead (Study Programme)
Quality Assurance Lead
Salary: Up to £42,944.78 per annumHours: 37 hours
Weeks Per Year: Full year
Contract Type: Permanent
Site: Nelson and Colne College
Closing Date: 1st June 2025
Interview Date: 20th June 2025
‘Would you like to be part of a team that aims to create the extraordinary?’
Our Organisation
This role is advertised by NCC Professional Services. Part of Nelson and Colne College Group, NCC Professional Services provides expert business support services to the wider College Group.
Nelson and Colne College has a national reputation for educational success that generations of families have benefited from. We pride ourselves on our individual approach to learning, where students receive outstanding teaching and support, extensive extracurricular opportunities and fantastic facilities.
The Exciting Role
A new and exciting opportunity has become available for a Quality Assurance Lead.
Are you interested in Quality and how this contributes to making sure our learners benefit from an Outstanding learning experience? Here at Nelson and Colne College Group, as an Ofsted Graded Outstanding College, our single, most important, focus is making sure that the quality of education we provide for all of our learners continues to be Outstanding.
The successful candidate will be primarily based at Nelson but may be required to travel across sites.
You may already be involved in leading a curriculum and carrying out quality assurance activities or currently teaching and want your next career move to be into Quality.
If this sounds like you, this is an exciting opportunity to become involved in maintaining our Outstanding range of programmes and to be closely involved in the further development and implementation of effective quality strategies that inform excellent outcomes for all of our learners.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Reporting into the Quality Assurance Manager to ensure the monitoring and progress of attainment of skills, lead to outstanding quality of education for learners across the College Group.
- Review, monitor and report key performance indicators for the purposes of the termly Curriculum Performance Reviews and for SLT reporting purposes.
- Directed by the Quality Assurance Manager, support curriculum teams to ensure early intervention activities are implemented, in a timely and effective manner, to ensure key performance indicators are achieved.
- As directed by the Quality Assurance Manager, carry out quality assurance activities including deep dives and complete and report outcomes for all quality assurance activities.
- Report into the Quality Assurance Manager, the outcomes for the Quality Cycles across the College Group provision.
- Work with curriculum teams to support quality improvement activities following quality assurance activities, reporting on consistency and compliance.
What We Are Looking For:
- Experience of working within a quality assurance framework
- Detailed knowledge of the Education Inspection Framework
- Knowledge of, and proven ability, to deliver the curriculum successfully
- Knowledge of working with Awarding Bodies and their quality assurance processes
- Experience of providing an outstanding teaching, learning and assessment experience
- Have a highly responsive, flexible and adaptable attitude
- Possess excellent communication skills
- Display initiative, be positive and enthusiastic
What We Offer in Return:
- Generous annual leave entitlement increasing to a maximum of 28 days (with service), plus Bank Holidays and closure days – totalling 41 days per year
- Access to a workplace pension scheme – with employer contributions of 5%
- Enhanced occupational sick pay scheme and access to family friendly policies and benefits
- A range of health and wellbeing benefits and support
- Staff recognition scheme, including long service awards
- Free on-site parking on all College sites
Further Questions?
Please contact our friendly HR Team h.resources@nelsongroup.ac.uk
*Please note we only accept applications submitted via our website*
All of our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check due to working with vulnerable adults and children. Should you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch with the HR team.
The Company
The Nelson and Colne College Group is an Ofsted Outstanding Further Education College with a high performance and ambitious culture.
The Group was born in November 2018 with the successful merger between Nelson and Colne College and Accrington and Rossendale College. Prior to that, pan-Lancashire adult community learning provider, Lancashire Adult Learning, became part of the family in 2016.
We are home to 2,400 16-18 year old A Level and vocational students, 16,500 adult learners, 1,300 Apprentices and 400 Higher Education students.
Expertly led by Principal and CEO Lisa O'Loughlin, the College Group delivers year on year improvement, growth and most importantly, highly successful students and Apprentices.
The success of our communities, employers, partners and economy is key to all that we do. We have forged valuable partnerships and a shared vision with like-minded organisations and individuals, creating a network of opportunity and excellence.
Our highly skilled staff are committed to raising and supporting aspirations, providing social mobility and an essential talent pool for the local, regional and national economy.