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Curriculum Manager for Maths and English

Location: York / Hull

Salary: up to £40,000

Contract: Permanent

Benefits

* 25 days annual leave

* Paid Volunteering day each year

* Enchance Maternity Scheme

* Life Assurance

* Pension Scheme

* Holiday Purchase Scheme

* Plus more!

The Role

As the Functional Skills Curriculum Manager, you will be responsible for developing, overseeing and enhancing the Functional Skills curriculum at HMP Millsike.

HMP Millsike is a brand new prison based in Full Sutton, opening in Spring 2025. The Curriculum Manager will join the team Winter 2024 to lead on development and mobilisation ready for go live in Spring.

This role is pivotal in ensuring the curriculum is of high quality, relevant, and tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners. The manager will lead curriculum development, maintain rigorous quality assurance processes, and provide leadership and support to a team of tutors.

The role also involves managing resources, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering stakeholder engagement. The management team has responsibility for day-to-day operation of Education Department. This includes and relates specifically to management of learners, particularly their induction and starting points, allocation to classes and conduct within the department

The Role:

* Curriculum Development: Design and develop a comprehensive functional skills curriculum tailored to the prison education environment, covering English, mathematics, and ICT at various levels. Ensure the curriculum is engaging, relevant, and accessible to learners with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

* Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain rigorous quality assurance processes to ensure high standards of teaching, learning, and assessment. Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum and make necessary adjustments. Monitor and evaluate functional skills program delivery, using data, deep dives, learning walks and observations of teaching and learning, and feedback to drive continuous improvement. To lead on any necessary interventions to swiftly stop poor performance and secure rapid improvement within the FS curriculum. To ensure that the department’s overall effectiveness, and particularly the quality of education, are of a consistently high quality that secures extraordinary and excellent outcomes for all learners.

* Team Leadership: Lead, support, and mentor a team of functional skills tutors, providing guidance, training, and professional development opportunities. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.

* Performance Monitoring: Analyse data related to learner progress, retention, and achievement. Use this data to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement.

* Resource Management: Oversee the development and procurement of teaching materials and resources. Ensure that all resources are utilised effectively and efficiently and are appropriate for use within the prison context.

What We're Looking For:

* A relevant first degree and/or professional qualification and a teaching qualification.

* A commitment to the Reduction of Re-Offending through Education and Skills.

* The ability to identify and implement continuous improvements to the curriculum in line with the needs and demands of learners and employers.

* Successful experience of managing curriculum development and change, quality, systems, processes and the performance of teaching staff in ways which have improved learner outcomes.

For full details of the role and the complete person specification, please review the Job Description. Apply now and make a real difference from the start!

This is a private prison currently under construction with an opening date of April 2025. This role will work with the mobilisation team from the summer 2024.

Whilst we cannot offer Teacher Pension we have a huge range of amazing colleague benefits, you can find out more below.

Who We Are

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.

As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply, we:

* Support people to find and keep jobs

* Help people to set up their own businesses

* Deliver skills training to further people’s careers

* Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce

* Rehabilitate people with convictions

* Tackle the root causes of offending

* Help people to live independently

* Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.

Curriculum Manager for Maths and English