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Head of Professional Standards

Salary c£75,000 - £85,000 per annum pro rata - Band 3, including 10% market supplement allowance
Location High Holborn, London
Hours 35 hours per week - Full-time, permanent contract
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The Vacancy

Job Title

Head of Professional Standards

Hours

Full time with majority home working

Happy to talk flexible working

Job level

c£75,000 - £85,000 per annum - Band 3

Including 10% market supplement allowance

Location

High Holborn, London

(minimum 4 days per month in the office)

 

The Role 

The Head of Professional Standards is a new senior regulatory role in BSB’s Regulatory Standards Department, which will lead the new Professional Standards team at the BSB. The role will provide strategic leadership of the regulatory policy framework underpinning the standards for education, training and ongoing competence of barristers, and will develop this new team to deliver an effective education and training policy function for the Standards department and the BSB. 

Responsibilities will include: 

  • Strategic leadership and ownership of all aspects of the regulatory policy framework. 

  • Leadership and management of the professional standards team. 

  • Stakeholder Engagement 

  • Plan and manage appropriate internal and expert stakeholder input into policy programmes, commissioning research where necessary. 

  • Fostering constructive relationships with Authorised Education Training Organisations. 

  • Undertaking speaking and other external engagements whilst representing the BSB. 

Key skills and experience required to undertake the role include: 

  • Considerable experience of working within a similar educational and, training within an education and training organisation or a regulator or similar organisation. 

  • Experience of managing multiple complex policy projects, leading on them, engaging stakeholders and managing risk. 

  • Well-developed strategic thinking and analytical skills including the ability to source and interpret complex data. 

  • Significant experience in leadership and people and performance management. 

 

Full details of the role requirements, and role specification can be viewed in the job description, attached. 

 

The BSB 

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) regulates barristers and their professional practice and specialised legal services businesses in England and Wales in the public interest. We are responsible for setting education and training requirements, setting standards, authorising organisations, monitoring the service provided, and handling complaints. Barristers work at the heart of our justice system, so the BSB’s mission is fundamentally important to the maintenance of the rule of law.   

Our people value our friendly and respectful environment, our support for flexible working, the opportunity to have a high degree of impact and our interesting, challenging, and varied work.  More about our work can be viewed on our website, including our Strategic Plan for 2022-2025. 

 

Working for the BSB 

The Bar Standards Board offers excellent terms and conditions of employment, including: 

  • Hybrid Working is the agreed way of working.  

  • We work from the office for a minimum of four days per month. 

  • Option to work from the office more and when there are team or organisational events. 

  • Up to 31 days annual leave, plus a holiday transfer scheme 

  • Up to 12% employer’s pension contribution 

  • Parental leave and flexible working policies 

  • Plus, a range of additional benefits, including gym classes, discounts and rewards. 

 

Applying 

To apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter, addressing the essential criteria from the person specification.  We operate an anonymous recruitment process, to reduce the chance of unconscious bias from our process, please remove your name and other personal information from your CV and covering letter before submitting. 

The Bar Standard Board aims to recruit a talented workforce and values the diversity in background, skills and experience of its staff. We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all job applicants irrespective of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, maternity or pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status or gender re-assignment.  

The Bar Standards Board is a Disability Confident Committed employer.  Candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for this role will be guaranteed an interview. Candidates with a disability who require reasonable adjustments should contact Vivien Bock, HR Advisor on 0207 611 4699 or HRCentralMailbox@BarCouncil.org.uk to discuss arrangements. 

 

Closing Date 

Sunday 10th November 2024 at 11:59pm

Proposed Interview Date 

w/c 18th November 2024

Contact Details 

0207 611 4699 or HRCentralMailbox@BarCouncil.org.uk 

 

The independent, practicing Bar of England and Wales is more than 16,500 strong and plays a crucial role in upholding the principles of government accountability under law and vindication of legal rights through the courts. 

A strong and independent Bar exists to serve the public. As specialists, independent advocates, barristers enable people to uphold their legal rights, often acting on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society.

The Bar makes a vital contribution to the efficient and effective operation of criminal and civil courts. It provides a pool of talent, from increasingly diverse backgrounds, from which a significant proportion of the judiciary is drawn, and on whose independence the rule of law and our democratic way of life depends.

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