Faculty Manager

Job Introduction

The School of Nursing and Healthcare is seeking an inspiring and experienced Performance Manager to manage and develop our faculty team. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with the Head of Staffing and the Senior Management Team to uphold the quality and integrity of our programme portfolio. 

your leadership will ensure the successful organisation of faculty, including onboarding, training, and ongoing day to day management of our academic faculty and associate staff—ultimately shaping an exceptional learning experience for our students.

What you’ll be doing

We are looking for a confident, highly organised self-starter with a track record of taking initiative and driving positive change. The ideal candidate will bring fresh ideas, demonstrate strong people management skills, and foster a supportive and performance focused culture. A positive, can-do attitude is essential, as is the ability to balance the School’s ambitious growth plans with empathy, understanding, and respect for individual circumstances.‑

As such, you will be responsible for:

• 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)

What we’re looking for...

To be successful in this role you will need to have a proven track record in the following areas:

Essential:

• Experience in managing a large team and performance management of staff
• Experience in recruitment, onboarding and training of new staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;  
• Enthusiastic and people focussed;  
• Exceptional attention to detail and Digitally literate
• 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;   

Desirable 

• Experience of working in an academic environment; 
• Significant experience of operational organisation including developing new systems and processes.  
• Experience in working in a Healthcare background
• Experience at producing and managing documentation. 

 Why work for BPP?

It is a great time to join BPP Education Group as we have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, offering a wealth of opportunities to our staff, students and clients. There are many more great reasons to join BPP Education Group such as:

• Brilliantly, you can study any of BPP’s courses for free – be it a professional qualification or full degree.

• We also provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts and much more.

Other key benefits include our Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated private healthcare and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family

As a Disability Confident employer, BPP is committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process. Candidates are encouraged to share any adjustment requirements ahead of interview so these can be considered and accommodated.

BPP part of Lyceum Education Group actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. BPP will select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Please note that for those posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check in addition to BPP undertaking any necessary online searches. This is deemed appropriate and necessary from a safeguarding perspective, and in line with BPP safer recruitment practices

BPP part of Lyceum Education Group reserves the right to amend or withdraw this advertisement at any time prior to the closing date, should we receive a high volume of applications or if business needs change