Job Introduction
Job purpose:
The School of Nursing and Healthcare is looking for an experienced performance manager to line manage the School’s faculty team. You will work closely with the Director of Faculty and our Senior Management Team, to ensure the quality and integrity of the schools programme portfolio is assured by the effective recruitment, on-boarding, training and line management of our academic faculty and associate staff.
The successful candidate will be a very organised self-starter, with the proven capability of taking the initiative and bringing new ideas to the fore. They should have a positive, can-do attitude to help the School achieve our ambitious growth targets whilst empathising with individual needs and circumstances.
Job Responsibilities
- Line manage a team of faculty staff, including responsibility for all Performance and Career Development conversations
- Setting and monitoring targets for faculty, identifying any performance or capability issues and putting plans in place to address them
- Support with the recruitment, onboarding and training of new members of faculty, working with key stakeholders from both within the School and the BPP group as a whole
- Liaise closely with the School’s Resourcing team to support with planning faculty’s workload
- Ensuring faculty members are fully work-loaded to maintain operating efficiencies within the School, whilst also balancing the wellbeing of members of the team
- Ensuring the continuous professional development of faculty staff remains current and exploring ways for them to develop, including academic scholarship activities
- Support our Quality Team with carrying out teaching observations of faculty across the School to ensure consistent teaching standards are being implemented.
- Support with putting in place training plans for all faculty within the School, specific to their individual training needs (working with the respective senior leaders)
- Support the School with initiatives to develop and retain talent and improve working life within the School and BPP as a whole
- Working with HR to ensure all BPP policies and governance are adhered to.
Skills and Experience
- Experience in recruitment, onboarding and training of new staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Enthusiastic and people focussed;
- Exceptional attention to detail;
- Ability to work under pressure, make decisions and apply flexible solutions;
- The ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload;
- The ability to work well in a team and be collaborative;
- Digitally literate;
- Self-motivated.