Recruitment

The General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) is committed to recruiting a diverse range of people who will provide a professional service and help us meet our key objectives.  We are proud of our reputation for expertise and quality of service, and we recognise that this is built upon the commitment, loyalty, skills and hard work of our employees.

We are a small team who work closely together in a friendly, open-plan environment to achieve the overall goals of the GOsC. For more about what we do, see Staff.

We currently have a vacancy for a part-time human resources manager (maternity cover) and we are inviting tenders for the revision of registration assessments.

Current vacancies

Human resources manager – part-time, 2 days per week, maternity cover

We have a vacancy for a part-time human resources manager to cover a maternity leave for nine months from mid-April.

The human resources manager is a part-time, stand-alone role reporting to the chief executive and responsible for managing the provision of a comprehensive human resources service to the chief executive, senior management, managers and members of staff.

The ideal candidate will:

• be able to work with a large degree of autonomy;
• be able to determine direction and detail of all HR policy and practices;
• be able to manage and facilitate decision making for all employee relations situations up to and including dismissal;
• be able to analyse risk impact of HR decisions/projects affecting the organisation and make recommendations;
• be able to negotiate terms of contracts and costs;
• be CIPD qualified.

Further information and applications

For further information and full role responsibilities download the job description. If you have further queries contact Amanda Chadwick, Human Resources Manager on 020 7357 6655 ext 252. To apply email your CV and a covering letter to achadwick@osteopathy.org.uk.

Closing date for applications: 17 February 2012 
 

Revision of registration assessments used by the GOsC: invitation to tender

Tenders are invited:

• to review and update the assessment criteria and guidelines for the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) registration assessments against newly published standards; and
• to deliver training in the revised criteria and guidelines to the GOsC registration assessors.

Download the invitation to tender document: Revision of registration assessments used by the GOsC

Closing date: 10 February 2012 at 12:00hrs.

The standards of practice

On 1 July 2011, we published a revised set of practice standards of competence, conduct and ethics known as Osteopathic Practice Standards (OPS). The OPS will be published for a period of 1 year and 2 months before the standards become effective on 1 September 2012.

The OPS outlines the standards of practice that we require all osteopaths to meet in order to be entered on our Register. Osteopaths must continue to meet these standards in order to maintain their registration and practise lawfully in the UK. Any assessments we undertake will use the OPS as the basis of the assessment criteria against which participants are assessed.

This project

The aim of this project is to ensure that all GOsC registration assessments are carried out against the new OPS after 1 September 2012. During the period between publication and implementation of the OPS the registration assessment processes will need to be benchmarked against the OPS, the supporting guidance and assessment criteria will need to be revised and the assessors will need to be trained.

Tenders are being invited to conduct this work on our behalf, working closely with us and other key stakeholders, such as the range of GOsC assessors currently employed.

To submit a tender

Download the tender document for full details about how to submit a tender. If you have any queries about the proposal or the tender process, please contact Joy Bolt on 020 7357 6655 ext. 238 or email: jbolt@osteopathy.org.uk.

Closing date: 10 February 2012 at 12:00hrs.

Tenders should be sent in a sealed envelope to the independent administrative support for the Tender Panel:

Joy Bolt
Professional Standards Officer
General Osteopathic Council
Osteopathy House
176 Tower Bridge Road
London SE1 3LU

Tel: 020 7357 6655 ext. 238
Email: jbolt@osteopathy.org.uk