Director of Catholic Life
Cardinal Newman College
Lancashire
- £63,214 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary paid at L12 of the SFCA Leadership spine, currently pro rata to £63,214 per annum.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01.01.2022
- Apply by:
- 16 June 2021
Job overview
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a practising Catholic to play a leading role in ensuring Cardinal Newman College lives out its Roman Catholic Ethos in all aspects, meeting the needs and interest of all its stakeholders, as a member of the wider College Leadership Team.
An outstanding college in every aspect, Cardinal Newman is one of the highest performing Sixth Form Colleges nationally for Value Added. However, we are as proud of our students’ social, cultural and pastoral achievements as we are of their outstanding exam results. We are a distinctive Catholic Sixth Form College located in the centre of Preston, which welcomes colleagues and students of all faiths, and which has a real feeling of community and is a happy, thriving and highly successful college.
Hours: The role is a full-time position.
Salary paid at L12 of the SFCA Leadership spine, currently pro rata to £63,214 per annum.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 9.00 a.m. Wednesday 16th June 2021.
We welcome applications for this wider College leadership post to commence 1st January 2022.
Please apply using the application form provided, Tes statements will not be accepted.
Further details are available at http://www.cardinalnewman.ac.uk/ or by telephone to the college on 01772 460181 or 07730 521 540. Interested applicants are invited to have an informal discussion with our Principal, Nick Burnham. To arrange this please contact the HR department at the College on extension 2235 or email HR@cardinalnewman.ac.uk
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Attached documents
About Cardinal Newman College
About the College
Based in the heart of Preston city centre, Cardinal Newman College is a Catholic Sixth Form College. Our core activity is to provide education for students aged 16-18, offering a range of A-Level, BTEC and T-Level courses, at both level 2 and 3. The College also offers a Foundation Learning course for young people with specific learning needs. In addition to the 16-18 provision, Cardinal Newman also offers a range of University courses, including Foundation Degrees in Teaching and Learning Support and Early Years, as well as an Initial Teacher Training programme. Cardinal Newman College is the post-16 provider of Initial Teacher Training for the Catholic Teaching Alliance, for graduates looking to get into teaching.
At Cardinal Newman, we are committed to the development of the whole person and we value each student as an individual, with a unique mix of skills and talents. Our students achieve outstanding results, which consistently place Cardinal Newman amongst the top Colleges nationally for Value Added.
Why work at Cardinal Newman College?
We are a happy and thriving Catholic Sixth Form College committed to equality and diversity, welcoming colleagues from all backgrounds into our community irrespective of their religion or belief, ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, marital or pregnancy status.
We recognise the invaluable contribution our dedicated staff make to the success of our students and the College as whole. As such, our aim is to foster a culture where staff feel valued and supported.
We also offer a range of excellent staff benefits, including:
- Generous Pension schemes for both teachers and support staff
- Pro rata to 22 days holiday (increasing to 25 days after 5 years’ service) plus 4 concessionary days and bank holidays for support staff
- A genuine commitment to staff health and wellbeing
- Access to a salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
- Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and Techscheme
- Free use of the on-site gym
- Access to professional development and the opportunity to undertake professional qualifications through apprenticeships
- Flu Vouchers
- Staff savings scheme
An Outstanding College
Cardinal Newman is one of the highest performing sixth form colleges nationally for Value Added and the latest Ofsted Inspection in February 2023 graded all areas of the College as ‘outstanding’. The report confirmed that students have highly positive attitudes to learning. Attendance is very high and students are committed to their studies and are highly motivated to achieve. The College has high expectations where students are at the heart of the curriculum. Inspectors also commented that leaders are highly considerate of staff well-being and workload and that staff morale is exceptionally high. Staff feel the college is well led and managed and that they are trusted and valued by leaders. They describe a strong ethos and culture to support students to achieve their aspirations, illustrating that the Catholic mission and ethos of the College is lived out at all levels.
Principal
Nick Burnham
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