Roles and Responsibilities

Role
Chief Executive Officer
Role description
Accounting Officer for the Beacon MultiAcademy Trust including NELTA
Managing Director
Quality Assurance for the Beacon MultiAcademy Trust including NELTA
Finance Director
Line management of ITT Financial
administration
ITT finance assistant
Financial administration of the ITT
programme
External Examiner
To scrutinise a representative sample of
trainees from every cohort by:
Observation of teaching.
Discussion with internal assessors and/or
moderators of all the evidence available on
whether individual trainees have achieved the
QTS standards and at what level.
Responsible for
Strategic leadership and financial
management of the Beacon Multi-Academy
trust
Strategic Leadership of the Trust and its
individual organisations including statutory
business responsibilities and
accountabilities
All aspects of NELTA financial management
Ensuring that our responsibilities are met
with regards to our financial and
governance obligations, and in continuing
to comply with ITT requirements.
Ensuring that provision is financially viable.
Ensuring that there is adequate control in
financial management and that there is
compliance with relevant financial
reporting and governance requirements.
Ensuring the consistency of standards
across as well as within the partnership
Accountable to
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust
Board
Chief Executive Officer
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust
Board
Chief Executive Officer
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust
Board
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust
Finance Director; NELTA
Strategic Board
NELTA Strategic Board &
Strategic Director of
Professional Development
Internal Moderator
Strategic Director
Professional Development
Scrutiny of internal moderation
arrangements, drawing on some of the
evidence from above.
Producing a report that includes an
evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses
of the provision observed, clearly linked to
the QTS standards and ITT requirements and
including an evaluation of the accuracy of the
assessments of trainees’ attainment against
the standards.
Detailed scrutiny of a sample of trainees from
every cohort, including any judged by an
assessor as on the pass/fail borderline, or
likely to fail.
Joint observations of trainees’ teaching.
Discussions by relevant staff of all the
evidence available, including that derived
from trainees’ previous experience and
achievement.
Arrangement of feedback to the partnership
about the accuracy and consistency of
assessment arrangements and about
elements of good practice to support
improvements.
Strategic lead on ITT recruitment, selection
and training across the teaching alliance
Providing a system of checks and balances
within a partnership to ensure that trainees
in different settings are assessed accurately
and reliably.
NELTA Strategic Board &
Strategic Director of
Professional Development
Ensuring that we comply with NCTL data
requirements.
Ensuring that we act reasonably in
regulating our volume of trainees in
accordance with our NCTL allocation.
Ensuring that teacher training provision is
at least good according to Ofsted and that
it meets all of the Secretary of State’s ITT
criteria.
Beacon Multi-Academy Trust
Board
Chief Executive Officer
NELTA Strategic Board
NCTL
Ofsted
Senior Professional
Development Leader
(PCM) in each placement
school
Professional Co-ordinating Mentor - member
of SLT who takes a lead on teacher
placements for ITT
Professional Development
Director
Strategic and operational lead on the teacher
training programme
Ensuring that all entrants have met the
entry requirements for ITT.
Ensuring that all entrants, as part of our
selection procedures, have taken part in a
rigorous and fair selection process designed
to assess their suitability to teach.
Ensuring that rigorous internal and external
moderation procedures are in place to
ensure the reliability, accuracy and
consistency of assessments of trainee
teachers against the QTS standards.
Ensuring that trainees are placed in
departments with the capacity to offer high
quality training, coaching and mentoring.
Ensure that these departments are good or
outstanding.
Ensuring that a subject mentor is allocated
to the trainee and that the trainee and
subject mentor meet at least once a week
for an hour.
Ensuring that the trainee is allocated the
recommended number of classes to enable
them to meet the standards for QTS by the
end of the training year.
Ensuring that the placement school meets
all of the requirements as set out in the
partnership agreement.
Liaising with the Professional Development
Leaders and Professional Development
Director as and when necessary.
Support the recruitment and selection
process.
Planning and delivery of initial teacher
Strategic Director of
Professional Development
Strategic Director of
Professional Development
Professional Development
Tutor
Planning and delivery of teacher training
programmes
Subject Mentor in each
placement school
Placement school based subject mentor
training programmes.
Assessing trainees against the standards for
QTS.
Quality assurance of the placement
experience that trainees get in schools
ensuring that it is of a quality sufficient to
allow the trainees to achieve the standards
necessary for QTS by the end of their
training year.
Ensuring that programmes are in place to
support subject mentors to carry out their
roles.
Ensuring that that programmes are in place
to ensure that trainees have attained the
necessary subject knowledge to meet the
requirements for QTS by the end of the
training year.
Supporting the planning and delivery of
initial teacher training programmes.
Supporting subject mentors in carrying out
their roles.
Assessing trainees against the standards for
QTS.
Quality assurance of the placement
experience that trainees get in schools
ensuring that it is of a quality sufficient to
allow the trainees to achieve the standards
necessary for QTS by the end of their
training year.
Ensuring that the trainee is allocated the
recommended number of classes to enable
them to meet the standards for QTS by the
end of the training year.
Professional Development
Director
Senior Professional
Development Leader (PCM)
Professional Development
Director
ITT administrator
Administrative support for all matters related
to marketing, recruitment, selection and
training of trainees
Ensuring that there is regular observation
and feedback to enable the trainee to make
progress towards meeting the standards
for QTS.
Ensuring that they meet the trainee for at
least one hour a week for feedback,
coaching and mentoring.
Ensuring that the placement school meets
all of the requirements as set out in the
partnership agreement.
Liaising with the Professional Development
Leaders, Senior Professional Development
Leader as and when necessary.
First point of contact for potential trainees. Strategic Director of
Organising and co-ordinating the ITT
Professional Development
interview process.
Maintaining an up to date contacts list for
HEI providers, trainees and subject and
Professional Co-ordinating Mentors at our
partner schools.
Supporting the administration and coordination of training programmes across
partner schools who have taken on
trainees.
Administration related to marketing and
recruitment strategies.
Administration of DMS and UCAS data
bases.