Curriculum Manager - Health and Social Care

Curriculum Manager - Health and Social Care

Application Deadline: 23 August 2026

Department: Health and Social Care

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Middleton

Compensation: £51,373 per annum

Description

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Health and Social Care education?

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Curriculum Manager to lead and inspire our dedicated team within the Health and Social Care department.

About the Role:

As Curriculum Manager, you will be responsible for providing effective leadership and operational management of your teams. You will work closely with the Centre Director to ensure the department contributes to and achieves the College's strategic objectives of becoming an outstanding, innovative, and customer-focused provider.

Your leadership will drive growth in student recruitment, enhance the quality of teaching and learning, and ensure service excellence across all aspects of curriculum delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. To oversee leadership of the programmes delivered within the curriculum area ensuring highly effective delivery of teaching, learning and assessment.
2. To lead and support curriculum innovation within the programme team to ensure the curriculum offer is effective in meeting the needs of learners and employers in line with national, regional and local government agenda.
3. Ensure all targets set for recruitment, attendance, punctuality, retention, achievement and progression are regularly reviewed and monitored with programme teams.
4. To promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development and Innovation, and facilitate the sharing of best practice.
5. Effectively manage the programme teams to ensure all aspects of the College's quality assurance processes are fully implemented.
6. Lead the team to effectively engage with, and produce a robust self-assessment report.
7. Co-ordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the College's exams team
8. Support the Centre Director to ensure that programme teams are consistently high performing through effective use of the College's performance management system, including conducting performance review meetings.
9. Lead, motivate and support programme teams so that they can make a full and valued contribution to the development of the programme area.
10. To deliver 324 hours per year of scheduled teaching
11. Support and lead the team to fully prepare for external/internal inspection and all audits.
12. Effectively manage all cost centre budget allocations in line with the College's financial regulations.
13. Be responsive to internal and external college initiatives
14. Be an active member of the cross college teaching and learning observation team.
15. Work with marketing and others partners to raise the profile of the area.
16. Any other duties of a similar level of responsibility as may be required.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

Teaching Qualification

Desirable Criteria

Degree and/or relevant professional qualification

How Identified: Application

Experience

Essential Criteria

Recent experience of curriculum development within FE

Academic/industrial/commercial experience in one of the areas of the curriculum work.

Experience of using college wide systems.

Desirable Criteria

Management experience including responsibility for quality, staff and curriculum

How Identified: Application/Interview

Specialist Knowledge

Essential Criteria

Knowledge of the curriculum portfolio

Ability to teach on programmes within the curriculum

How Identified: Application/Interview

IT Skills

Essential Criteria

Intermediate user of Microsoft applications

Ability to use technology to generate information and improve efficiency

How Identified: Application/Interview