£50,245

About The Role

Join Telford College as our Learner Manager for Foundation & King’s Trust, leading a dedicated team delivering high-quality provision across SEND, Independence, Personal Development and Employability pathways. This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader with a passion for inclusive education to drive outstanding learner outcomes, shape curriculum delivery and support students to achieve their full potential. You will lead teaching teams, champion high standards, and work closely with staff, employers and partners to create exceptional learning experiences that prepare learners for life and work.

We offer a supportive and ambitious working environment, excellent professional development opportunities, onsite facilities, and a range of employee benefits. If you are an experienced educator and leader committed to making a real difference to the lives of young people and adults with diverse learning needs, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

The Purpose Of This Role Is To

• Provide operational leadership and management for the Foundation and King’s Trust curriculum, consisting of SEND, Independence, Personal Development and Employability pathways. Fostering a culture of ambition, professionalism and continuous improvement that enables staff and students to meet their potential and more.
• Design and deliver high-quality, inclusive and responsive curriculum that meet student, employer and sector needs and secure excellent outcomes and progression.
• Take ownership of student experience, quality, safeguarding and compliance, representing the college with integrity while contributing to strategic priorities, partnerships and sustainable performance.
• Undertake teaching responsibilities commensurate with the level of the post as agreed for the curriculum area, including own timetable and cover as required.

Key Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be expected to:

• Provide inspirational leadership to teaching teams to deliver consistently high-quality, innovative and challenging teaching that secures ambitious student outcomes, including strong value‑added, high achievement and positive progression destinations.
• Hold full accountability for the curriculum area’s performance, encompassing student outcomes, experience, safety and the quality of teaching, learning and assessment, while embedding a culture of high expectations, ambition and professional accountability.
• Lead the design, implementation and continuous review of coherent, well sequenced curriculum that meet student, employer and sector needs and align with local priorities, national policy and college strategic objectives.
• Maintain and apply up-to-date expertise in curriculum content, sector developments and contemporary pedagogy to drive continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment practice.
• Champion inclusive, ambitious and supportive learning environments, ensuring the effective use of learning support, initial assessment and resources so that all learners, including those with SEND and diverse needs, can thrive.
• Work proactively with employer facing colleagues and partners to embed meaningful employer engagement into curriculum design, delivery and the wider student experience.
• Plan, coordinate and manage timetabling, staffing and resources within agreed budgets to ensure effective curriculum delivery, efficient deployment of resources and financial sustainability.
• Ensure the effective delivery of tutorials and wider study programmes, supporting students’ personal development, employability, resilience and readiness for life and work beyond college.
• Promote high levels of engagement and attendance, including clear accountability for learners’ participation in maths and English, embedding these skills across the curriculum and supporting learners to overcome barriers linked to prior attainment.
• Lead and promote enrichment opportunities, including competitions, showcases and activities that extend learning beyond the classroom and raise student aspiration.
• Create and sustain a high-performance staff culture, celebrating success, sharing effective practice, supporting wellbeing and modelling sustainable, professional workload management.
• Recruit, induct, develop and performance manage staff effectively, providing clear expectations, coaching, mentoring and timely intervention where improvement is required, in partnership with Quality and HR.
• Lead rigorous quality assurance and improvement activity, including self assessment, quality improvement planning, observation of teaching, internal verification, moderation and effective liaison with external verifiers.
• Ensure the intelligent use of performance data by self and staff to monitor achievement, progress, attendance, retention and high grades, enabling timely, targeted interventions to improve learner outcomes.
• Ensure robust learner administration, safeguarding, data protection and compliance, while representing the college with professionalism through marketing, recruitment, partnerships and continuous professional development.