The Department for Education is currently recruiting teacher and lay panellists for the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) Professional Conduct Panels (PCP).   
  
Successful applicants will be required to sit as one of three PCP panellists to consider allegations of serious misconduct referred to the Secretary of State.   
 
The PCP will consider the evidence presented to the panel and determine if the facts in the case are proved and whether this amounts to unacceptable professional conduct, conduct that brings the profession into disrepute and/or conviction of a relevant offence. The panel will then be required to consider whether to recommend to the Secretary of State that the teacher should be prohibited from teaching and, if so, whether it is appropriate to permit the teacher to have the prohibition order reviewed after a minimum period of at least two years.
  
This role of the lay panellist will suit individuals who have experience in dealing with investigations or proceedings of a complex and sensitive nature. 

The role of the teacher panellists will suit individuals with experience in dealing with investigations into school procedures, systems and processes and those with experience in pastoral roles. The position will most likely suit senior school leaders, heads of department and teachers with responsibilities such as Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCO) and/or Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs).  Applications from classroom teachers with the necessary skills and experience from outside of their current teaching role would also be welcomed.   
 
For more information on this vacancy please go to https://apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/5161 (This link opens in a new window) 
 
If you’re interested in applying for or would like any more information on this vacancy, please contact the Panellist Recruitment Team at TRA.RECRUITMENT@education.gov.uk (This link opens in a new window)