Faculty Lead in Bedford

Location: The Bedford Sixth Form

Salary/Benefits: Salary is between £41,399 and £50,637 per annum DOE and Qualifications, 45 days annual leave plus Bank holidays, Teacher’s Pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Hours/Weeks: 37 hours per week – 52 weeks per year

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Right to Work: This is a UK based contract, and you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer sponsorship and any offer of employment will be subject to evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.

About the Role

We are currently seeking a Faculty Lead to join our Sixth Forms department at The Bedford College Group.

Responsibilities:

• Faculty Leadership & Strategic Contribution: Act as a senior member of the extended leadership team, supporting SLT to lead, promote and develop The Bedford Sixth Form in line with TBCG strategy and A Level vision.
• Teaching, Learning & Student Outcomes: Drive outstanding student progress and achievement across faculty subjects through rigorous quality assurance, data‑led intervention, enrichment and a minimum 10‑hour teaching commitment.
• Curriculum Planning & Quality Improvement: Lead curriculum planning and continuous improvement, ensuring high‑quality schemes of work, effective assessment practices, strong value‑added outcomes and alignment with post‑18 destinations.
• Staff Management & Performance Culture: Line manage subject staff through clear expectations, coaching, appraisal and succession planning, fostering a high‑performing culture where staff and students thrive.
• Governance, Compliance & College Contribution: Ensure compliance with safeguarding, EDI, health & safety and College policies, manage resources effectively, support recruitment and marketing, and contribute to college‑wide duties, events and examinations.

About You:

• Qualifications & Professional Credibility: Degree‑qualified with PGCE (or equivalent), strong record of recent CPD, and deep knowledge of Post‑16 and Sixth Form education, including A Level accountability and progress measures.
• A Level Leadership & Quality Improvement: Proven experience leading and improving A Level provision, implementing effective improvement strategies that raise retention, achievement and student outcomes.
• Outstanding Teaching & Educational Values: Recent experience as an outstanding A Level practitioner, with high expectations of students and staff, strong commitment to education values and a relentless focus on improvement.
• Strategic Leadership, Data & People Management: Excellent leadership and people‑management skills, able to analyse and use data effectively, manage projects, make sound decisions and influence at all levels in a fast‑paced environment.
• Professional Practice, Safeguarding & Flexibility: High integrity, attention to detail and confidentiality, committed to Equality & Diversity, safeguarding and health & safety, with flexibility to travel across campuses and adapt working hours as required.

Organisational Values:

• Valuing Teamwork: We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously: We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred: At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive: We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring: We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence: We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

Interviews to be held: TBC

Safeguarding: The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.