Head of Sixth Form

Hours: 36 hours per week
Tenure: Perm

Ref: 012-15
Reference: MAR20150347

Ealing Hammersmith & West London 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. Over 1000 teachers and support staff deliver over 500 courses, from basic learning development and pre-vocational qualifications to postgraduate and professional levels. At the heart of the local community, we are constantly striving for improvement and excellence and our Heads of Department will play a lead role in delivering the future successes of the College. Our commitment to provide a safe, welcoming and supportive environment in which to learn and develop is renowned.

The Role

The successful candidate will have overall responsibility for the College’s Sixth Form Provision including curriculum planning delivery, quality control, marketing and co-ordination of the College’s services supporting the Sixth Form. You will lead and manage the Department, inspiring staff to continuously raise standards in, for example, KS4 and A level provision. Taking the lead in financial management of Department and using high level and complex data to analyse and plan your service delivery, you will ensure that the Department is delivering continuous improvements to retention, attendance, achievement and success.

The Person

With Significant experience in the successful teaching of 16-18 year olds on academic and vocational courses and providing positive educational outcomes for these students, you will be a visible and inspirational leader with a track record of delivering success in a similar Department or Faculty. You may be managing one curriculum area, or be in a similar role in a smaller college, and will be sure your skills and experience can help us achieve our long term improvements and goals. In addition to this you will have:

• The ability to create an effective and innovative learning environment.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully developing effective partnerships.
• Experience of developing and implementing a strategic plan.
• Budget management experience.
• Well-developed organisational and administrative skills.
• The ability to produce, analyse and present accurate data and statistics.
• An understanding of the external regulatory and inspection framework.
• An understanding of, and commitment to, the safeguarding of all learners.

Our aim is to recruit the best staff possible and to deliver first class teaching to our learners. 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.

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 receipt of satisfactory DBS clearance.

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Closing Date: 05 April 2015
Interview Date: TBC