Head of Curriculum – Health and Social Care and Early Years, Learning Development, LSAs and Daybreak Centre, Small Animal Care and Public Services

Job Reference: HOC/02.2026

Salary: This is a full time role with an actual salary of up to £49,850.43 per annum, dependant on skills and experience.

Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.

Expected Start Date: 01/06/2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Curriculum to join the College.

The purpose of the role is to provide leadership to the curriculum and support areas ensuring students and apprentices receive the highest quality education. To work closely with managers, curriculum and support teams on the Colleges Strategic plan and vision to deliver inspirational vocational, technical, professional and higher education and training that empowers people, business and the community to achieve their goal.

The successful applicant must have:

• Knowledge of the Further Education and Skills Inspection Toolkit
• Awareness of T levels, FE and HE qualifications
• Knowledge of SEND and or ALS initiatives local or government and how these translate into practice

• Track record of successful retention and achievement rates within curriculum for both classroom and apprenticeship provision
• Proven ability to utilise staff effectively and efficiently
• Expertise in initiating projects and effective budget management skills

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• The ability to motivate staff and students and apprentices to achieve their full potential
• Ability to work as part of a team yet autonomously at times
• Natural leadership skills – can lead a team effectively ensuring they achievement success

• Ability to liaise with key stakeholders
• Good administrative and IT skills including the use of IT platforms. E.g. Teams
• The ability to be creative and innovative when faced with problems and challenges
• The ability to set and achieve challenging performance targets and effectively manage under-performance

The roles main duties include:

• To lead and effectively manage staff, students and apprentices to ensure efficient and responsive delivery of the curriculum, with a high level of individual and collective team performance.
• Provide expertise in managing and delivery, ensuring statutory responsibilities for SEND students in particular those with EHCPs and high needs are met and reviews for EHCP students are co-ordinated and carried out in accordance with the SEND code of practice.
• To lead and work closely across all the college ensuring inclusion is identified and met with high-quality learning support for SEND, high needs and students and apprentices who are disadvantaged or have barriers to learning to achieve and progress.
• To ensure that all aspects of the Student Journey are undertaken to the highest standards by staff.
• To work with Student Services ensuring students on Study Programmes and Apprenticeship are provided with meaningful careers guidance.
• To carry out appraisals with staff within the area and set key objectives and performance indicators to support the College Strategic plan.
• To be responsible for, Self-Assessment and Quality improvement planning and reporting for the area. Ensure KPIs are well understood and regularly reviewed to bring about sustained improvement in teaching and training and outcomes for students in-line with Further Education and Skills Inspection Tool Kit.
• Take charge of curriculum intervention strategies for underperforming curriculum areas.
• To ensure staff in the curriculum areas are highly effective, reflective, efficient, and generally high performing across the full range of performance metrics.
• To meet or exceed targets for the curriculum areas around attendance, retention and achievement including attendance of study programmes students to maths and English, highlighting the benefits of continued study to support positive student progression/destination.
• To ensure that local, regional, and national policy initiatives in relation to the curriculum areas are disseminated to staff and reflected in the Intent, Implementation, and Impact of the curriculum through the direction of the Head of Curriculum
• To play a full role in business and curriculum planning and timetabling of provision, ensuring curriculum areas are high-quality, sustainable, employer engaged, demand-driven and appropriate for the local and national market.
• To lead on new programme developments, major amendments, and where necessary managed withdrawal, ensuring changes are aligned to current and future demand to enable student recruitment targets to be achieved.
• To be proactive in the marketing of curriculum areas.
• To attend Quality and Curriculum Meetings and be a member of the College Leadership Team.
• To be a member of the Lesson Observation Team.
• To liaise with designated senior college managers to ensure that appropriate opportunities exist for students and apprentices’ participation and progression.
• Liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders as directed by senior managers to ensure that current and prospective students’ and apprentices’ needs are met.
• Seek out opportunities for further funding or the extension of partnership opportunities which support the strategic aims of the College.
• To ensure that all budgetary measures are adhered to and regularly reported to the designated senior manager who will oversee all budgets.

This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.

Fancy a 4-day working week*?

Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month

Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.

What we offer you in return:

• An excellent pension scheme :
  • Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5% 
• A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
• In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
  • 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years’ service
• Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
• Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
• Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave

The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 22 March 2026. Interviews will take place w/c 30 March 2026.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to hrapplications@grantham.ac.uk  
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This employment offer is subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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