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Executive Director of Quality, Safeguarding & Partnerships
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Executive Director of Quality, Safeguarding and Partnerships
Salary: Competitive
Location: Surrey
This job post will be advertised for a minimum period of two weeks on LinkedIn. After this time please apply directly to https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe136098/ until the closing date of Midnight, Friday 9th October 2026.
Orchard Hill College is an Outstanding Specialist College (Ofsted, April 2025) offering life-changing learning opportunities to young people and adults with a range of special education needs and/or disabilities. We operate vibrant community-based College Centres across London and Surrey, where committed specialist teams deliver a variety of programmes designed to meet the diverse needs of our students. Students who study with us have a wide range of needs including profound and multiple learning disabilities, communication and behavioural difficulties and specific medical needs. All students are individual, and their learning programme is designed to support and empower them to achieve their aspirations and goals, whilst developing skills to become more independent members of their community.
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We are seeking to appoint an Executive Director of Quality, Safeguarding and Partnerships to provide strategic oversight and assurance across all College centres, ensuring the highest standards of educational quality, learner safety and organisational effectiveness. The successful candidate will lead the development of robust quality and safeguarding assurance frameworks, champion evidence-informed practice and drive continuous improvement across the College. Working across education, health, social care, employment and the voluntary sector, the postholder will also focus on building influential partnerships that improve life chances for learners, strength organisational sustainability and position Orchard Hill College as a recognised leader in specialist SEND education.
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If you offer significant senior leadership experience in further education, SEND or a related sector and have experience of leading quality improvement across education, as well as experience of developing and leading strategic partnerships, we would love to hear from you. This is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact, not only on the quality and effectiveness of our provision, but on the lives of the learners and communities we serve.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Jacqueline Lau: jacqueline.lau@gatenbysanderson.com
Closing date: Midnight, Friday 9th October 2026
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