Lead Campus Excellence and Enhance the Spaces where Students Succeed - Join us as Head of Campus at Spring Lane
As Head of Campus, you will lead Spring Lane, creating an ambitious, inclusive culture where students and colleagues can thrive. You will inspire high performance, champion continuous improvement and shape an environment that strives for excellence in every aspect of campus life.
Home to our Further and Higher Education Animal Management, Countryside and Horticulture provision, as well as our Junior College for students aged 14–16, Spring Lane is a unique and vibrant learning environment. As a specialist in one of these curriculum areas, you will provide strong academic leadership while ensuring an exceptional learner experience.
You will oversee the quality and performance of provision, driving outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes. Alongside this, you will manage delegated budgets, lead the campus estate and facilities, build positive relationships with tenants and take overall responsibility for safeguarding, ensuring Spring Lane remains a safe, welcoming and inspiring place to learn and work.
Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees.
Check out our full list of benefits which includes
- Generous Annual Leave
- Competitive Pension Scheme
- Learning and Development Opportunities
- Culture and Recognition
- Wellbeing and Health Support
- Flexible Personal Leave
Our ambition is to find an experienced yet innovative and proactive individual to join our management team to take forward and shape the future of the Spring Lane Campus.
You will be responsible for ensuring that curriculum delivery is of the highest quality whilst ensuring the required support being in place to help all learners thrive and achieve in our dynamic teaching and learning environment.
You will bring a track record and genuine passion for driving up standards and a can-do attitude that will inspire your team. Up to date industry knowledge and a good understanding of current industry practices are essential requirements for this role. So too is a commitment to excellence, a focus on delivery and strategic understanding.
To be successful in this role, you will hold a degree level qualification and a recognised teaching qualification (DET/PGCE/CertEd). With demonstrable teaching practice at good or outstanding level, you will also have experience of curriculum planning and development and a proven ability to manage and lead an experienced, professional team to deliver results.
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Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.
As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.
It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.
If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
