Academic Manager

Role Responsibility:

Academic Manager 

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services

Oakhill Secure Training Centre, Milton Keynes, MK5 6AJ

Salary Range £35,050.88 - £40,345.21 per annum plus an additional £2000 responsibility allowance per annum

Permanent - Full Time (40 hours per week)

Benefits: Company Pension, free on-site parking, uniform, on-site canteen, access to High Street Shop discounts and ongoing training and development

At Oakhill Secure Training Centre we look after young people aged 12 to 18 years old who have been remanded or sentenced to periods of detention. The vulnerable young people in our care can be challenging with a wide range of social and emotional complex needs. This is an environment that calls for high standards of social care and service delivery to provide a secure and stable environment for young people to develop their life skills and address the behaviours that have led them into custody. 

Oakhill Secure Training Centre works closely with the Youth Custody Services to ensure that its regimes and designs reflect best practice in residential care to prevent offending.

The successful candidate will be dedicated to delivering learning success through effective leadership and collaboration. Your focus will be on the success of the students and support improvement within the department, specifically within English and Maths programmes. You will lead on the delivery, design and development of programmes, maintaining an oversight of the student journey to ensure they have an excellent learning experience. Many of the learners have a diverse range of needs and learning abilities, they will often have had a negative experience with education – a huge focus for the department is to enable them and support them to gain essential functional skills.

Key Responsibilities

• To play a significant role in the design, development and delivery of learning which meet the needs of the learners. Satisfying internal and external quality assurance criteria; in line with the examination bodies. 
• To lead on the delivery, design, development and co-ordination of core educational programmes, ensuring they meet the needs of the students and internal and external quality assurance criteria.
• To effectively manage staff within the team, including performance and absence management following guidelines provided through the relevant policies and procedures, tackling any issues as appropriate and ensuring that individual and team performance is met.
• To line manage the staff who teach on a range of programmes, to include timetabling and deployment of staff, undertaking teaching and learning observations and staff appraisals.
• To collect, manage and analyse appropriate statistical data, to inform continuous improvement which ensures learner success and achievement of funding.
• To understand the learning needs of the student population and be able to deliver and develop challenging and exciting learning sessions.
• To ensure the students across your curriculum area are enrolled on programmes and registered with awarding bodies.
• To ensure accurate records are maintained regarding completions, certifications and achievements.
•  To prepare, teach and mark as required, using value added and other data setting challenging targets
• To effectively administer students’ learning, ensuring the maintenance of accurate records of learning activities, learners’ progress, assessment schedules, schemes of work, course reviews and induction programmes.
• Assist in the promotion of creating a positive Health & Safety culture across the site leading by example, this includes reporting accidents and near misses in a timely manner & follow the applicable safe systems of work for the role.
• The duties and responsibilities listed within this job description are not exhaustive and the job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary from time to time.

The Ideal Candidate:

As an experienced professional with a relevant teaching or training qualification (e.g. QTS, QTLS, DTTLS, PGCE),  you will be able to identify, develop and share resources focused on teach and learning.

Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills will enable you to work with senior managers and stakeholders as required in a rapidly changing environment.

You will be required to complete 0.6 of the role teaching.

At G4S, we invest heavily in our people.  If you join us you will have a job specific induction programme to equip you with the skills and knowledge for the job. As well as ongoing support and development opportunities we offer generous holiday entitlement, company pension, an onsite gym, free onsite parking and the chance to do an extraordinary job – every day.

For more information on Oakhill Secure Training Centre please visit, https://oakhillstc.co.uk/

Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process

G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.

Safeguarding children and young people is our primary focus and the welfare of the child is paramount. Therefore we have a corporate responsibility to ensure that the safeguarding and our G4S values are at the centre of all we do.​

To apply for this role, you must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years.   You will also be required to undergo DBS enhanced level security clearance and will need to provide full details of your work and educational history covering the last 10 years as part of the screening process.