Course Leader: New recruit Pathways
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Job Title: Course Leader: New recruit Pathways
Salary: £39,469 to £47,089 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £39,469 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £47,089 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Central London, travel to different MPS sites
Every day, millions of Londoners trust the Met Police to keep their city safe. It’s a huge and ever-evolving challenge, which is why every new officer needs the highest standard of training. As a Course Leader, you’ll have a unique opportunity to prepare thousands of new recruits to protect a vast and vibrant city that’s home to countless communities. London’s depending on us. And we’re depending on you.
Our Centre for Initial Recruit Learning (CIRL) is based within the Met’s Professionalism Operational Command Unit. As a Course Leader, you’ll manage and oversee at least one of our police officer recruitment pathways, which range from degree apprenticeships to a new Access and Gateway entry programme.
Day to day, you’ll own and deliver the pathway and experience, evaluating outcomes, monitoring quality, developing improvement plans, and applying Quality Assurance and reporting processes. Consistency is essential, which means working closely with other Course Leaders. You’ll also work with a range of contacts within the Met plus HE partners and training providers. Together, you’ll see that every new officer has the advice and support to learn and succeed.
Degree-educated (or equivalent), you’re a capable, hands-on leader, who can manage stakeholders, administration and students. At this level, you’ll need a background in FE, HE or a relevant educational field. Thanks to this experience, you understand the Education sector and relevant processes such as quality assurance. Solution-focused, you’re passionate about L&D, and determined to lead by example.
Now more than ever is the time to join the Met Police. We want our team to be representative of our country and are looking to recruit people who understand and reflect the diverse communities we engage with every day.
Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself, a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension, you'll also benefit from excellent career and professional development. If you’re looking to progress, this is an outstanding opportunity.
Job Information
Working as part of the newly formed Centre for Initial Recruit Learning (CIRL), within the Met’s Professionalism Operational Command Unit, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our police constable recruits receive the best possible training to prepare them for the unique challenges of policing London.
This role will require the post holder to manage and oversee one or more of the individual police officer recruit pathways. Current pathways include Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship, Degree Holder Entry Programme, Police Now, Initial Police Learning Development Programme Plus and very soon, a new Access and Gateway entry programme.
The post holder will work with other Course Leaders to ensure all programmes are being delivered in a consistent and effective way. This includes managing centralised activities, such as induction, annual monitoring, curriculum and programme updates and maintenance, and customer queries and complaints, alongside supporting the CIRL’s management team. The post holder will need to engage with and manage relationships with key internal stakeholders in the Met (e.g. Basic Command Units (BCUs), Met Learning & Development (L&D) and external stakeholders including the Met’s main Educational Partner for PEQF, Babcock International together with a range of Higher Education Institutions.
Key Role Responsibilities
- Day-to-day management of between one and three of the educational pathways for recruit police officers including ownership and delivery of the pathway and experience, evaluating outcomes, monitoring the quality of the education provision against agreed performance frameworks, developing improvement plans, ensuring appropriate quality assurance and reporting processes are completed and any changes are embedded through change controls as required.
- Liaise with Met delivery partners/providers to facilitate effective delivery of the learning programmes/qualifications they are responsible for and ensure that the academic regulations and requirements governing the programmes are aligned and harmonised with Met policies and police regulations in relation to eligibility, assessment, progression, protected learning time, misconduct, appeals and complaints.
- Represent the Met, as appropriate, on a range of programme governance boards, committees and panels, including the CIRL’s Performance meetings and Boards.
- Work with the Initial Education Coordination Lead, University Inspectors, Met L&D and BCU L&D Units to ensure a holistic and integrated approach to programme delivery, including onboarding, induction, street duties and relevant assessment activities, to ensure the student police officer experience is as consistent as possible within and across the programmes.
- Be the day-to-day point of contact for both internal (e.g. Met L&D, BCU L&D units) and external (e.g. delivery partners) stakeholders for all matters relating to programme maintenance, monitoring and delivery.
- Production of regular Programme and Board papers to report on programme delivery, issues and mitigations.
- Production of annual monitoring report to meet licensing requirements.
Communications & Working Relationships:
The post holder must have excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain good working relationships with the following groups:
- Internal to the Met
- Works as part of the central team in the CIRL, liaising closely with peers such as the Initial Education Coordination Lead, University Inspector and Met L&D to ensure a holistic and integrated approach to programme delivery and student police officer experience across all the programmes.
- Regular communication and collaboration with L&D BCU Units.
- Attend PEQF and L&D governance forums, as required.
- External to the Met
- Liaise with counterparts across the Met/Babcock International collaboration to agree delivery, monitoring, improvements and ensure agreed programme governance is adhered to.
- Interact with various roles across the collaboration, including HEI programme leads, tutors and student police officer support personnel.
- Represent the Met at programme governance forums, as required.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 13th December 2022.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Behaviours
You are expected to demonstrate:
- A desire to promote a culture of L&D everywhere.
- Outstanding professional standards
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills including the ability to work in complex partnerships with external stakeholders, and internally as part of a matrix management structure.
- Ability to negotiate and influence within a matrix management structure.
- In relation to the student policer officer pathways, ensure delivery of the relevant curriculum requirements and provide oversight of student policer officer development, assessment and quality assurance.
- Ability to motivate and develop a team to ensure their individual and collective performance is of the required standard, undertaking performance reviews, coaching and development.
- Strong performance record delivering change and/or innovation.
- Resilient, independent, self-motivated and self-reflective, recognising the strength in others and utilising all team members’ skills to affect wider change.
- To act with integrity and in accordance with Met values.
- Empathy for student police officers, their learning journey and holistic wellbeing including work/life balance.
- Logical and organised approach to work including business change.
- Willingness to engage and enable across teams and the organisation.
- High work ethic and desire to get the job done.
- Solutions focused mind-set and a problem-solving approach.
- Proactive drive for improvements.
- Ability to reflect and improve on performance: for self, for student police officers and across the organisation.
- The confidence and ability to challenge appropriately across any part of the organisation.
Knowledge
- Educated to degree level
- Knowledge of the new Police Officer recruit pathways including Degree Apprenticeships and Degree Holder Entry Programmes
- Good knowledge of adult learning theory and methodology
- Knowledge of the Police Code of Ethics, police professional standards
- Understanding of apprenticeships and degree level education and Higher Education learning culture and practices and regulations.
- Knowledge of educational quality assurance and academic regulatory processes.
Skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build positive relationships with the business, HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) and other organisations involved in student police officer L&D such as the College of Policing
- Ability to network and build relationships internally and externally
- Proactive information sharing, team work and collaborative working
- Robust organisational skills to manage a diverse and demanding workload whilst maintaining an eye for detail
- Ability to prioritise workload effectively with a flexible approach
- Proficient IT skills, primarily MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written, including influencing skills.
- Project management skills
- Evidence of successfully managing multiple programmes to deliver against standardised national frameworks
Experience
- Analysis of data to identify trends and making recommendations
- Report writing at Programme Board and/or corporate level
- Experience of delivering through others, internally and externally, with no line management responsibility
- Embedding improvements into educational methods systems and processes
- The management of quality assurance processes and monitoring and updating programmes.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.