NPQ Apprenticeship Manager

About Us

We at Best Practice Network share the belief that every child, regardless of their background, should benefit from an excellent education. To achieve that, we support and train the educational professionals who work alongside them to be the best they can be, so in turn, they can transform the lives of children and young people.

We're a friendly, DfE accredited, Ofsted outstanding training company providing apprenticeships, professional development and the DfE's 'Golden Thread' (trainee teachers to school Executive Leaders). We are adaptable, collaborative, and genuinely value the work we do to support the education sector, as much as our trainees do. Our people are at the heart of our business and our passion and commitment to education is what drives us.

We have seen incredible growth over the last few years both nationally and internationally. We aim to be an employer where everyone can be themselves, do their best in an inclusive working environment and where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.

To carry out the leadership and operational management to ensure a highly effective experience for NPQ Apprenticeship programmes, to ensure learners follow individualised pathways and maximise their potential and progress towards timely success.

Job Responsibilities

• Performance management of team, ensuring contractual targets and objectives are met in terms of timely success rates, non-starters, referrals and progressions.
• Direct responsibility for the recruitment, management and support of a team of Apprenticeship Tutors.
• To lead a team of Apprenticeship Tutors, setting monthly KPIs to ensure the timely completion of all elements of the Apprenticeship programme including functional skills and additional learning support.
• Responsible for the continual staff training to ensure consistency of processes and practices to meet funding, regulatory and inspectorate requirements.
• To undertake monthly one to ones to appraise and coach ATs and feed into their personal development plans and the Quality Improvement Plan.
• To support the development of the ATs, both new and existing, ensuring they follow funding guidelines as set by the DfE and up to date inspectorate requirements.
• To train new ATs in BPN systems and policies, induction to the business including ILPs and Additional Learning Support, mentoring and functional skills and IT systems including Bud.
• Address under performance and implement corrective methods.
• Supporting business growth; working alongside the sales department to maximise new business sales and learner recruitment.
• Ensure all learner qualifications are claimed on successful completion.
• Support on the introduction of new Standards Apprenticeship programmes.
• Teaching Learning and Assessment.
• Conduct observations of teaching and learning as required.
• Share teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) good practice and celebrate learners' and others' successes.
• Ensure high levels of learner attendance in all eLearning sessions and monitor tracking of individual learner progress.
• Monitor Health & Safety checks as appropriate to ensure they are current and kept so.
• Monitor the delivery of functional skills (supporting the Apprenticeship Tutors) for learners to be able to continuously develop their English and maths skills and/or to achieve the level required by the programmes and carry out all monitoring and claiming activities.
• Maintain records and deliver reports as required by the SLT including those from Bud as required.
• Quality Management:
  Be responsible for the programme performance against KPI measures, reporting any issues to the Quality Team.
• Input into the annual departmental SAR and prepare Quality Improvement plans for each programme.
• Ensure and maintain standards and quality by engaging with and using BPN quality systems.
• Contribute to the evaluation of TLA procedures to enhance the learner experience and support CPD.
• Ensure team meetings are held to standardise practice, share information and good practice, and plan and implement improvements in…