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Management

• Line management of all relevant team staff including recruitment, appraisal and performance management, conducting regular career development review meetings, in order to review progress, set goals and ensure continuing professional and personal development.
• Take responsibility for the internal and external management of the course, including budget management, recruitment and supervision of course staff.

Shared line management of the Course Administrator.

Take a lead role in recruitment processes and contribute to decisions about annual recruitment targets; manage and participate in course interviews of applicants and selection of applicants.

• Staff recruitment and selection: contribute to systems for recruiting and selecting inducting and supporting course staff, in line with the Trust’s Race Equality Strategy.
• Ensure effective course induction arrangements are provided in co-ordination with the appropriate staff.
• Staff support: manage and provide support to staff in relation to their roles as tutors, supervisors or seminar leaders; consult with the Head of Portfolio and CAMHS Senior Manager about complex concerns in relation to staff.
• Student support: ensure that the tutorial system is functioning well and that students are aware of other available support. Consult with the Head of Portfolio and relevant colleagues in professional services about complex concerns about individual students or groups of students.

Learning and teaching and Academic governance

• Timetabling: manage the timetabling of all teaching activity in collaboration with the course administrator and scheduling team.
• Student Progression: manage student progression through the course, including the processes for students applying to intermit and withdraw, analysing any themes in order that these can be addressed, specifically in relation to issues of equality, equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Academic Quality and Governance: in consultation with Head of Portfolio: prepare the annual ARC report where necessary; prepare documentation for and attend collaborative reviews of the course delivered in the Trust and Associate Centres as appropriate; stay abreast of policy and procedure changes at the Trust and the University Partner; Participate in Trust and Portfolio CPD for Course Tutors as needed. Participate in DET peer review processes and any other quality development processes as appropriate.
• Student feedback and course committee meetings: Ensure that student feedback is sought and considered in relation to course development, including: DET student questionnaires are taken on board and responded to as appropriate; conduct course specific feedback exercises including termly course committee meetings.
• Staff development: manage and chair termly course staff meetings; Identify staff development needs through appraisal, develop appropriate CPD for teaching staff, support and enable staff to attend CPD events and participate in these.
• Assessment: manage course specific aspects of the assessment process; support administrative staff in relation to assessment tasks; participate in marking and verifying assessment submissions as appropriate; attend Assessment Board Meetings as required.
• Teaching: To take responsibility for ongoing course design and delivery contributing to teaching on the course where appropriate.

Maintain links with the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team in London, to actively promote strategic aims and ambitions in relation to TEL and regional development.