Head of English

2 weeks ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Council Full time

**Reference number**

BUC09398

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

19 Jun 2023, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

3 Jul 2023

**Overview**:
Are you passionate about teaching and learning? Do you have a background in teaching English? Are you dedicated to developing the literacy skills of students, so they can achieve more than they ever thought possible and progress in their chosen careers?

**Salary Type**:College Pay Scales

**Salary details**:£40,577 - £47,042 per annum

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Hours**:37 hours per week / 52 weeks per year

**Closing date**:03/07/2023 00:00

**Interviews to be held**:12th July 2023

**About us**:
Here at Buckinghamshire College Group, we are passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities to achieve their learning goals and life aspirations.

You will find a warm welcome at all of our campuses in; Aylesbury, Amersham and High Wycombe, where we are a thriving community of over 500 Staff and 7,000 students and we are sure that whatever your aspirations and career goals, we can help you to achieve them.

We will support you to develop new skills and help expand your career opportunities within the college. We are also flexible and accommodating, allowing you to be as productive as possible.

This is an exciting time to join the College as we are about to launch our new 5-year Vision and Strategy which includes a vibrant new-build in the heart of High Wycombe which will consolidate the current Wycombe and Amersham campuses.

We value our staff highly and offer a competitive reward and benefits package.
We hope you will want to be part of Buckinghamshire College Group and we very much look forward to welcoming you.

**About the role**:
Do you have the skills and ambition to lead a team of English teachers to innovate and hone their professional practice? Have you got the experience and drive to contribute to BCG’s mission; to transform futures for the people of Buckinghamshire and beyond?

We are looking for a Head of English at Buckinghamshire College Group to join our cross-college Learning Innovation Team who will lead on ensuring a consistently high-quality learning experience for students, every day.

You will be inclusive and student
- focused to ensure that BCG staff are skilled and motivated to create exceptional learning experiences. A confident and competent teacher who values life-long learning and the status of the dual-professional working in FE, you will be an excellent role-model for colleagues and students. We have developed a strong network and engaged in national projects, and we are ready to activate an ambitious college approach to developing the literacy skills of students.

If you are a learning innovator looking for your next challenge, are dedicated to student success and are keen to make a positive difference then you have the Bucks College Factor, and we want to hear from you

**About you**:

- Excellent understanding of high-quality teaching, learning and assessment
- Knowledge and understanding of quality assurance and quality improvement practices
- The drive to lead, motivate and manage staff to support strong student success
- Deliver excellent student success by supporting ambitious, high-quality teaching and learning, every day.
- Lead on curriculum design, learning innovation and tracking and monitoring the progress of learners.
- Collaboratively develop an English provision that meets the needs of students, employers and stakeholders now and in the future.
- Lead and develop a high performing team of staff

**Other information**:
For more information on the role, please contact HR directly.

**This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare**:

- **All unspent convictions and conditional cautions**:

- **All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).**

**For further information on filtering please refer to **Nacro guidance** and the **guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice** (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).


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