Our client a leading College is seeking an ambitious ESOL specialist looking for a new permanent opportunity.
Our client is recruiting a Curriculum Head (ESOL) with a focus on their adult provision.The right candidate will have responsibility for all operational matters within the ESOL curriculum area. As a curriculum head, you will be expected to act as a role model to teachers, and the wider team and work closely with other heads to build a strong ESOL provision.
Main purpose
- To ensure that the targets for recruitment, retention, internal progression and destinations, and achievement of students are met.
- To manage the curriculum staffing arrangements for courses including ESOL, maths for ESOL learners, additional qualifications, and enrichment activities.
- To ensure overall outstanding quality of the provision through quality interventions and support, staff management and appraisals, and curriculum related staff development.
- To line manage teachers and support staff in the curriculum area and be responsible for arranging of programmes across the curriculum area
- To work effectively with colleagues across the organisation to ensure students achieve their English and maths qualifications where required and access support from the student services
- There will be some teaching attached to the post
Main responsibilities
- Curriculum Management
- Line manages teachers and support staff and ensure highly effective day-to-day running of the area.
- Work with employers and key stakeholders on the development and planning of the curriculum offer to ensure a highly responsive curriculum is in place that meets the needs of our students, employers, and local authority.
- Ensure a well-developed, innovative curriculum offer is in place across level 1-4 for young people, adults, and apprentices.
- Plan and manage arrange of courses in the area to ensure that the offer takes account of best practice and national developments so that students achieve their learning outcomes and progress to university, further training, or employment.
- Ensure the course offer is inclusive in its content and design.
- Continuously improve the quality of vocational subject, and English and maths provision e.g.through ensuring timely compliance with IV/ EV requirements, assessment schedules and course review activities.
- Ensure effective support is in place for all students so that the tutorial framework, eILPs, tracking and disciplinary processes are consistently implemented and meet the needs of all students.
- Ensure students attendance and progress is monitored in a timely way and proactive interventions are implemented to maintain high levels of student attendance.
- Ensure the highest standard of inclusive course materials and resources (e.g. schemes of work, online resources, and course materials) are available and accessible to all students.
- Develop and implement procedures to ensure consistency and rigour in student assessment and ensure compliance with college polices in relation to assessment tracking including use of pro-monitor and One File.
- Ensure that challenging targets are set at course level and achieved for recruitment, retention, achievement, and progress, through monitoring and follow up of Key Performance Indicators.
- Implement course planning and timetabling that ensures cost-effective deployment of staff and ensure efficient utilisation.
- Hold regular team meetings to ensure clarity of standards, vision, performance expectations are understood by all team members.
- Follow the college's appraisal process and ensure annual reviews are held with all direct reports that support staff professional development and enhance quality of offer.
- To be high profile within all areas of the school/ team and ensure that professional standards are evident in all aspects of the school/team's operation and that learner standards are rigorously and consistently applied.
Essential Qualifications
- A degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Teaching qualification (DTTLS, PGCE, Cert Ed)
- A Management Qualification(Desirable)
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)
- An English Language Teaching Qualification for e.g. Delta, Celta, Ma Elt