Curriculum Manager - Health and Social Care
Leeds, UK (On-site)
Posted 2 days ago
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Job Summary
Lead and develop the curriculum area across teaching, learning and assessment, driving curriculum innovation, quality assurance, and performance management while coordinating internal and external verification and stakeholder engagement.
- Own and oversee programme delivery and QA across the curriculum area
- Drive curriculum innovation, monitoring targets and ensuring alignment with learner and employer needs
- Coordinate verification, performance reviews, and cross-college collaboration
Job Description
Responsibilities
- To oversee leadership of the programmes delivered within the curriculum area ensuring highly effective delivery of teaching, learning and assessment.
- To lead and support curriculum innovation within the programme team to ensure the curriculum offer is effective in meeting the needs of learners and employers in line with national, regional and local government agenda.
- Ensure all targets set for recruitment, attendance, punctuality, retention, achievement and progression are regularly reviewed and monitored with programme teams.
- To promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development and Innovation, and facilitate the sharing of best practice.
- Effectively manage the programme teams to ensure all aspects of the College’s quality assurance processes are fully implemented.
- Lead the team to effectively engage with, and produce a robust self-assessment report.
- Co-ordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the College’s exams team
- Support the Centre Director to ensure that programme teams are consistently high performing through effective use of the College’s performance management system, including conducting performance review meetings.
- Lead, motivate and support programme teams so that they can make a full and valued contribution to the development of the programme area.
- To deliver 324 hours per year of scheduled teaching
Requirements
- Teaching Qualification
- Recent experience of curriculum development within FE
- Academic/industrial/commercial experience in one of the areas of the curriculum work.
- Experience of using college wide systems.
- Knowledge of the curriculum portfolio
- Ability to teach on programmes within the curriculum
- Intermediate user of Microsoft applications
- Desirable Criteria
Preferred
- Degree and/or relevant professional qualification
- Management experience including responsibility for quality, staff and curriculum
Hopwood Hall College
We are a Further Education vocational college and University Centre based on two campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated north-east of Manchester.Here at Hopwood Hall College & University Centre, we have an in-depth understanding of the skills required in the 21st Century and offer a huge range vocational courses from foundation level through to foundation degrees.The College has, over recent years, received more than £30 million in capital investment which includes the remodelling of our Rochdale Campus, the new Technology Centre at Middleton Campus and our new state-of-the-art Learning Resource Centres. More importantly we are continually investing and refurbishing our estate with a new Image Salon and licenced restaurant which opened in September 2013 and the expansion of our Centre for Life Sciences.Working at Hopwood Hall College:Hopwood Hall College employs approximately 500 staff in both teaching and learning and support services. Staff are based at either our Middleton or Rochdale Campus. Hopwood Hall College is an equal opportunities employer. Our Equality & Diversity statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process. Staff benefits: Working at Hopwood Hall College comes a wide range of benefits including generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, plus a final salary pension scheme. Staff also have free access to internet and email facilities. Other non-contractual benefits include:• free gym membership at our Middleton Campus Sports Arena• a Health Cash Plan• purchase loans for computers and bikes• salary sacrifice scheme for childcare vouchers• on-site nursery (Rochdale Campus)• credit union for savings, low cost loans and life assurance• free on-site parking
