Job responsibilities
KEY TASKS/DUTIES
The person appointed
will be responsible to the Head of Area for
the following:
Supporting the design and development of a wide FE curriculum
that meets the needs of learners, supports growth, and enables them to develop
the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to progress into meaningful
sustained destinations.
To manage and develop the implementation of FE curriculum assigned
to them that creates an outstanding learner
experience.
To manage, motivate and develop an assigned team of staff and
support their career journeys while championing a cycle of continuous
improvement.
To work collaboratively with cross-college FE
and HE teams to ensure the wider knowledge, skills and behaviours learners
need are planned
and developed coherently (e.g., Maths, English, Careers, Personal Development, digital
etc.)
To proactively review and adapt the curriculum offer
alongside the Head of to reflect the requirements of external stakeholders,
meeting the skills agenda.
To achieve key targets in terms of FE attendance,
achievement, retention, progression and student experience as set centrally and
by the Head of Area.
To ensure college protocols and awarding organisation
requirements for assessment and internal verification are complied with to
support outstanding levels of learner progress.
Identifying at risk learners and implementing effective
strategies to mitigate them leaving programmes early alongside the Head of Area.
GENERIC DUTIES
The generic duties and responsibilities of the Deputy Head of Area are as follows:
To monitor
timetabling for all their areas
of responsibility.
Coordination of full-time and part-time team members to ensure full utilisation
and maximisation of teaching hours.
To manage staff absence effectively ensuring
effective measures are taken to cover assessment, teaching and
learning to minimise the impact on the learning experience for learners.
Development, approval and validation of courses in response
to Student, Employer needs and external bodies requirements.
To line manage a team of staff ensuring performance is
regularly reviewed in line with College performance management and appraisal
protocols.
To monitor and support the development of high-quality teaching, learning and
assessment to include the implementation of developmental action plans for staff.
Providing reports,
data and other information as required.
To ensure the progress of learners is robustly monitored,
developed and reported as per the college protocols.
To ensure the college policy for target
setting and pastoral
care of all learners within the faculty is successfully implemented.
To ensure
attendance and standards
of learners behaviour are outstanding.
To ensure IAG for prospective and existing apprentices is
effective and leads to positive destination outcomes.
To ensure college policies and procedures are fully adhered to by all staff and learners.
To assess and/or teach on appropriate apprenticeship
framework, standards and full-time courses.
Comply with information security requirements in line with
Weston College policy.
Other duties as may be required by Leadership Team to
reflect changes and developments
commensurate with the grade of the post.
TARGETS
This post has
key targets that are required for its success. These targets will be set and
agreed annually, normally prior to the start of the academic year. Targets will
be progress monitored and updated on a termly basis.
The following is a list of areas for which targets will be set, whilst this list covers
key areas it is not exclusive and possibly change in line with external
and internal strategies.
Success, retention and achievement.
Attendance and
behaviour
Progress and value-added.
Apprentice Progression.
Teaching and learning observation profile.
Staff and divisional performance
