About the Role:
To carry out the leadership and operational management to ensure a highly effective experience for Early Years and Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship programmes, to ensure learners follow individualised pathways and maximise their potential and progress towards timely success.
- 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 (cross sector).
- 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 ESFA and up to date inspectorate requirements.
- Address under performance and implement corrective methods.
- Supporting business growth; working alongside the sales department to maximise new business sales and learner recruitment.
- Work closely with the other Performance Managers, Sales, Compliance, Finance and Administration Teams to ensure cohesive approach to the learner experience from application to completion.
- Support the Team as required to ensure the smooth running of apprenticeships
- Conduct regular observations of teaching and learning in the field
- 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
- Be responsible for the programme performance against key performance indicator (KPI)