Vacancy at National Skills Academy for Social Care

Project Officer (Endorsement)

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The National Skills Academy for Social Care is a world-class centre
of development, learning support and training practice in England’s
adult social care sector.

This is your opportunity to support a new project where the end
result will be a national improvement in social care training. You’ll
be supporting our Head of Quality Assurance in implementing,
running and developing a totally new system to record and monitor
the uptake of the Skills Academy Endorsement Scheme. You will
also undertake other administrative duties in support of the QA
programme, liaising with a range of organisations and individuals
with an interest in improving training in the adult social care sector.

The job involves establishing and maintaining effective processes
for tracking and monitoring applications for endorsement. It also
means ensuring smooth communication and information flow
between the Academy and its representatives in the nine English
regions, and with education and training providers, employers and
their training departments, educational publishers and others.

To succeed you need significant experience in establishing,
managing and maintaining complex databases and information
management systems, and a proven ability to work collaboratively
with others in collating and recording information. Knowledge of
social care training and quality assurance systems and performance
standards would be an advantage, but is not essential

Closing date: 16 March 2010 - 5 pm

Apply for this vacancy

• Online application form

Supporting documents

• Role description and person specification 

Additional Notes:

Applicants for this vacancy will need to demonstrate their ability in the following areas on NSA's application form:

Essential: Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of quality assurance systems and performance standards
• Significant skills and experience in establishing, managing and maintaining complex databases and information management systems
• Significant skills and experience in working collaboratively with other people and organisations to collect and record information
• Understanding of the role that endorsement and quality assurance can play in improving the quality of education and training

Essential: Core competences

• Choosing a problem solving approach, seeking solutions to problems, collecting necessary information and consulting appropriately to take sound and timely decisions
• Contributing actively in a team environment and building productive working relationships and partnerships. It includes encouraging, supporting, developing and achieving shared objectives and learning, and being sensitive and responsive to others
• Identifying performance indicators, measuring performance and outcomes, taking responsibility and striving for improvement based on sustainable development and being creative in achieving it. It includes managing learning and development within the learning organisation.
• Planning and organising work effectively to achieve objectives

Essential: Role competences

• Delivering Business Objectives - Collecting, managing and communicating information necessary for business planning and service delivery.
• Delivering Business Objectives - Critically evaluating data and information, making sound evidence based decisions and assessing risks.
• Delivering Business Objectives - Delivering products and services to specified quality standards.
• Managing external relationships - Building and maintaining networks and instrumental relationships that enable the NSASC to achieve its objectives.
• Managing external relationships - Working in partnership with others to provide a high quality contribution and add value to organisational performance.
• Governance - Managing resources to achieve business objectives, effectively and efficiently.