Curriculum Manager – Childcare

(RR126-16)

West London’s College is one of the UK's largest general further education colleges, providing exciting and innovative learning opportunities to over 20,000 students at four campuses in Acton, Ealing, Hammersmith and Southall. At the heart of the local community, we are constantly striving for improvement and excellence and our Managers will play a lead role in delivering the future successes of the College. West London’s Way is demonstrated through the College values of Excellence, Ambition, Focus, Accountability, Inclusion and Integrity.  The post holder will strive to improve lives through, education, training, skills and development, fostering social and economic success, in line with the College’s overall mission.

The Role

We are looking to recruit a “Curriculum Manager – Childcare”, who will be responsible for the management, development and delivery of the Childcare and Support Teaching in Schools curriculum, including relevant Skills for Life provision as well as developing our apprenticeship offer.   You will ensure the curriculum is vibrant and innovative, optimising student recruitment and retention by driving the quality of performance and improving outcomes for learners. You will continuously build, review and maintain relationships with employers.

The Person

An effective leader, you will have a successful track record in the direct delivery and operational overview of the curriculum. Demonstrating an excellent working knowledge of all areas, you will possess the ability to competently develop an outstanding curriculum to meet the needs of the learners and wider community.

It is essential you have previous experience of developing and maintaining external partnerships, quality assurance, establishing new leads and investigating opportunities currently underutilised.

You will be able to lead, motivate and develop your staff fuelling them with a passion and determination to drive the department to outstanding and be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Relentless drive for excellence in everything that you do
• An ambition to seek opportunities and suggest better ways of working
• A focus to ensure a professional and effective delivery of service
• Taking personal responsibility and accountability for getting things done
• An underpinning commitment to inclusion in everything that you do
• Demonstrating integrity through a fair and consistent approach, building trust by delivering on promises

If you hold a first degree/professional qualification in childcare as well as a full teaching qualification and can demonstrate your commitment to the College values, we would love to hear from you.  For more information please go to www.wlc.ac.uk/jobs

Hours: 36 hours per week
Tenure: Permanent

Closing Date: 24 February 2016
Interview Date: tbc.

We are committed to equality and diversity and expect our staff to share this commitment. The safety and welfare of our staff and learners is extremely important to us and is why we pride ourselves on our Safeguarding procedures.

PLEASE NOTE:

Unless otherwise stated, we do not accept CVs.

To be eligible to apply for this role, you must possess the relevant qualifications listed in the person specification; this includes but is not limited to, at least, a level 2 qualification in Maths & English.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of any vacancies when we have received a suitable number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

All positions are subject to Criminal Record Clearance at either a Basic or Enhanced level (formerly CRB) and your start date will be dependent on satisfactory pre-employment clearance.