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Director of Learning and Teaching

Director of Learning and Teaching

Woking College

Surrey

  • Expired
Salary:
£47,000 per annum (subject to pay review)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
18 April 2018
Apply by:
4 December 2017

Job overview

Excellence in learning and teaching is at the heart of everything we do at Woking College.  A college can have the most wonderful community, brilliant facilities, lovely students, super support staff and be on a sound financial footing (all of which is true in respect to Woking College) – but must be underpinned by innovative and engaging learning and teaching.   

We are seeking to appoint a new Director of Learning & Teaching, the incumbent having being promoted to an Assistant Principal role in another College. This is a crucial appointment for the College so that we might further enhance the life chances of our students and the reputation of the College as the most positive and innovative college in respect to learning, teaching and assessment. 

Applications from teachers in schools and sixth form college sectors are welcome.  A full mentoring programme is organised to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development. 

We are looking for an exceptional candidate, with aspiration and potential to join our senior leadership team. We expect high performance from all our staff, and are looking for an impressive individual to inspire students and staff.  Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.   

There is an expectation that the post holder will work for the customary 39 weeks, plus two weeks cover during the holiday periods, by negotiation. 

The Director of Learning & Teaching will form, with two other Directors and two Assistant Principals the members of the College Operations Group.  The College Operations Group meets weekly to review policy, discuss current issues and co-ordinate cross-college activity. The Principal acts as the Chief Executive and is responsible to the Academy Trust for the proper conduct of all College affairs.  The post of Director of Learning & Teaching will provide an excellent opportunity for the appointee to further their own career development and take a successful College forward to the next stage in its development.

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Salary: £47,000 per annum (subject to pay review)

Closing Date: 9am, Monday 4 December 2017

Interviews: Monday 11 December 2017

To Apply:  Please download the Director of Learning & Teaching Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form   

Apply by completing and returning the Application Form to:     

Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer:  email: kcr@woking.ac.uk  direct telno: 01483 227438  

Woking College, Rydens Way, Woking, GU22 9DL.   Reception telno: 01483 761036  

Website:  www.woking.ac.uk

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About Woking College

Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.

Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!

We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020.  A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.

We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.

With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.

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