Acis Group
Vocational Manager
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Shape the Future of Vocational Learning
At Skills Centre PLUS, we believe great teaching changes lives. We’re looking for an inspiring and hands-on Vocational Manager to lead our workshop-based learning environments across Hebdon Road, Normanby, and Berkley Business Centre. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with practical delivery, shaping high-quality vocational programmes that equip learners with industry-standard skills, confidence, and clear pathways into employment.
Leading a team of talented vocational specialists, you’ll drive teaching excellence, champion innovation, oversee safe and engaging learning environments, and ensure every learner receives an exceptional experience. As a key member of our Education and Skills Leadership Team, you’ll help shape the future of vocational education across our communities, creating opportunities that enable people to achieve their goals and thrive in their chosen careers. If you’re passionate about developing people, raising standards, and making a lasting difference, we’d love to hear from you.
As a Vocational Manager, a typical day might include:
- Managing performance and oversight for all vocational teaching delivery at our workshop-based vocational sites Hebdon Road, Normanby, and Berkley Business Centre, understanding the detail, ensuring flexible and coordinated delivery structures are in place, and implementing corrective action for at-risk areas.
- Lead, coach, and manage a team of vocationally qualified professionals, increasing employee engagement and productivity, and developing a best practice team who deliver a positive experience for all those who interact with us and outcomes for their learners every day.
- Setting and monitoring objectives and targets for your team, including resource planning, budget management, managing efficiency, and maximising quality.
- Driving the quality of teaching for Skills Centre PLUS and lead the development of our approach to workshop-based vocational programmes that meets the needs of our learners to help them achieve.
- Working closely with the curriculum manager to ensure the curriculum is linked, resource planning is controlled and efficient, and we are maximising opportunities for learners.
- Leading the development of teaching practice for vocational qualified specialists areas, developing a standardised approach to the scheme of works, lesson plans, and adherence to awarding bodies standards – ensuring the quality of what we deliver is consistent and of a high standard.
- Ensure a modern, flexible, safe, and innovative approach to delivery, sharing this learning and insight across all the team, group, and sector to drive us forward and grow.
- Implementing standards and activities to ensure ongoing improvement of our service, leading on health and safety, environment development, asset management, and stock control for the skills team.
- Working closely with the group quality and compliance team, owning your area to deliver and record quality interventions, hold compliant paperwork, and achieve outcomes.
- Supporting the team. As a senior leader within our Skills Centre PLUS team, you will lead the development of what we do whilst supporting the day-to-day operations across all hubs and be responsible for management decisions as they arise.
- Working as part of the wider education and skills leadership team to ensure we enable high-performing teams that deliver results and outcomes for our communities we serve.
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This role acts as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, and as part of a team, delivers on a rota to own safeguarding across education and skills. It has a minimum requirement of delivering teaching a minimum of one day per week. This ensures all levels understand and continue to develop their teaching practice together.
Some of the experience/skills we need to consider you:
- Hold a relevant L3 qualification (ONC or equivalent)
- Have relevant industrial experience for workshop-based vocations – such as wet trades, motor vehicle, engineering, construction.
- Educated to degree level or can demonstrate relevant equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification or relevant equivalent qualification with teaching experience – ideally as QTS.
- Excellent knowledge and practical experience of managing or leading a delivery area within the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF).
- DSL Level 3 trained or willingness to undertake, with substantial experience of dealing with complex cases
- Demonstrable evidence of leadership and management development or skills
- Significant experience of delivering programmes to support those on EHC Plans
- An organised individual who can plan and monitor a varied workload
- Strong people skills which encourages others to work collaboratively
- Strong literacy skills with the ability to write clearly and effectively
- A flexible approach to work and the ability to meet challenges and adapt to change
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviour at times
- Being self-motivated, resilient, with a drive and determination to achieve results
- General awareness of health and safety and building management
- Strong IT skills, across multiple platforms, with an in-depth knowledge of office tools, with an eye for detail that’s second to none.
- Strong communicator with excellent customer service experience and skills
- Ability to work as a team, under pressure, and in a fast-paced environment
- A good understanding of the barriers faced by people, and the solutions that may be able to benefit them
What will make you stand out from the crowd:
- Be able to develop and implement a strategic plan
- Capable of developing systems to improve the operational elements of the Workshops
- Have enough understanding of the wide variety of curriculum areas to ensure that all areas are developed equally.
- Qualified IQA Level 4, or working towards
- Qualified Assessor for example, Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement or willingness to undertake
- MHFA
- Working with awarding bodies to develop qualifications to meet learner needs
- IOSHH or equivalent qualification and experience in management of health and safety and site-based delivery.
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Being Part of the Acis Team, You'll Get
- Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual plus bank holidays
- Pension contributions up to 10%
- The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us
- One day's paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
- Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits
- Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out, and much more
- Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
- Long service awards for our loyal employees
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
- Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
- Death in service benefit as part of our pension scheme
As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role, we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.
As part of our commitment to safeguarding, there will be numerous safeguarding checks that form part of the recruitment process, including an Enhanced DBS check, and you will be required to complete a self-declaration form at the interview stage. Please note this role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, and it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from regulated activity.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident, and welcome applications from any applicant who feels they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and are happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need.
This role acts as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, and as part of a team, delivers on a rota to own safeguarding across education and skills.
This role has a minimum requirement of delivering teaching a minimum of one day per week. This ensures all levels understand and continue to develop their teaching practice together.
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