Advanced Quality Practitioner

Job Title: Advanced Quality Practitioner (Prison Education Services)

Location: South (Field-based across regional prison sites, with your base being the closest prison to your home address)

Salary: Up to £42,000 per annum (DoE)

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

• Coaching & Development: Actively coach, mentor, and support teachers across regional sites, ensuring new team members adapt quickly to deliver high-quality, engaging lessons.

• CPD Delivery: Plan, design, and deliver impactful Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions and training tailored to the unique needs of different curriculum areas.

• Quality Assurance: Lead learning walks, developmental lesson observations, desktop reviews, and assessor evaluations to identify areas of improvement and share models of best practice.

• Regional Oversight: Work out in the field across the South Region four to five days per week to maintain high engagement, operational visibility, and support performance management processes.

• Qualifications: A recognised teaching qualification alongside Assessor and/or Verifier awards is essential.

• Expertise: Substantial vocational teaching experience, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, innovative learning experiences to complex or challenging cohorts.

• Quality Improvement: Strong working knowledge of quality assurance framework processes, including target setting, internal verification, and post-observation action planning.

What Is On Offer

• Leave: 35 days of annual leave, 3 festive company closure days, your birthday off, and all UK bank holidays.

• Professional Growth: Continual professional development paths, including fully funded professional qualifications.

• Perks: Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, a dedicated wellbeing platform, active EDIB Employee Networks, and extensive retail, lifestyle, and food discounts via Blue Light Card, NUS Card, and the Encore rewards platform.

Important Notice

Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities.

We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Dovetail and Slate Ltd (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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Because education matters.

Dovetail and Slate Limited.

Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited (11351060) acts as an Employment Agency.