Curriculum Team Leader - Childcare

Join our Team! We have some exciting opportunities available at Barking and Dagenham College. We are looking for a Curriculum Team Leader (CTL) - Childcare to join our Building Services team. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis and in return, we will offer a competitive salary of £48,372 - £51,123 pa inc London Weighting.

The Curriculum Team Leader - Childcare role: The Curriculum Team Leader (CTL) will work with the Curriculum Manager to develop curriculum planning and activity for the delivery of programmes to learners within a specific department, ensuring an innovative and high-quality provision. As the Lead Teaching, Learning and Digital Champion for a specific department, the CTL will work closely with the Curriculum Manager, designated Teaching and Learning Champions, Digital Champions and English and Maths Champions to plan, monitor, manage and evaluate the curriculum offer, to ensure the delivery of quality face-to-face and online learning to all learners and promote high standards of teaching. The CTL will lead on T Shaped skills development, keeping abreast of internal and external developments in curriculum and policy and support the drive to prepare learners and ensure they can develop employability skills, complete work placements, participate in competitions and have maximum opportunity to progress. The CTL role carries a teaching commitment of 19 hours per week.

Key Responsibilities of our Curriculum Team Leader - Childcare:

• Undertake formal scheduled teaching, tutorials and learner assessment, management of learning programmes, learner recruitment, welfare and academic counselling, administrative work, alongside preparation and marking associated with timetabled work.
• Act as a mentor to curriculum colleagues, developing and demonstrating best practice in learning, digital learning, teaching and assessment assuring standardisation, continuity and resources.
• Work with relevant curriculum teams to facilitate and support strategies to raise retention and achievements of learners and promote the development and shared use of high-quality teaching and learning resources.
• Plan each programme within Guided Learning Hours and to Awarding Body standards - work with teams to develop, design, deliver and assess qualifications of study for groups of learners and individuals.

Our ideal Curriculum Team Leader - Childcare should have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Cert Ed/PGCE or relevant teaching/training qualification.
• Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Appropriate Level 3 subject specialism.
• B1 or TAQA verifier award.
• Teaching or training experience.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring individuals and/or groups.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and developing provision in accordance with quality assurance frameworks.
• Experience of self-assessment processes, course reviews and writing development plans.

If you are passionate about success and can do the above, then we want to hear from you! You will need to submit a cover letter demonstrating how your personality, skills and experience meet our values for this role.

PLEASE NOTE; All applications forms must be fully completed, showing full education and employment details. An incomplete application will not be considered for shortlisting. We have the right to interview candidates before the application deadline.

Barking & Dagenham College are committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Safeguarding: All employment offers are made subject to checks in line with the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines. These include (some of which are dependent upon the role and the individual): enhanced DBS including children’s barred list check, DfE teaching/management barred list check, on-line searches, overseas criminal record check, evidence of identity and right to work in the UK, satisfactory references, confirmation of medical fitness, evidence of relevant qualifications and a check of previous employment history. You will be required to become familiar with College’s policies and comply with the requirements to safeguard and protect the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults. All staff are asked to complete mandatory training on KCSIE and other key areas, and to read the relevant policies.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Closing date for applications: 16th June 2025.

If you would like to learn more about our Curriculum Team Leader - Childcare role, then please click ‘apply’ today!