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Curriculum Leader – Engineering & Motor Vehicle
Location: Furness College, Barrow in Furness
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Shape the Future of Engineering and Motor Vehicle Education
Furness College is seeking an ambitious and inspiring Curriculum Leader for Engineering and Motor Vehicle to lead, develop, and grow one of our most vital curriculum areas. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced professional with strong subject expertise to make a real impact on learners, staff, and the wider community.
As a Curriculum Leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping outstanding technical education, ensuring our provision meets current industry standards while preparing learners for successful careers in engineering and motor vehicle industries.
The Role
You will provide an operational leadership across Engineering and Motor Vehicle programmes, including full time, apprenticeship, adult and commercial pathways. Working closely with teaching teams, employers, and senior leaders, you will ensure the curriculum is ambitious, coherent, and responsive to local and regional skills needs.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing high quality curriculum provision in Engineering and Motor Vehicle
- Driving excellence in teaching, learning, and assessment
- Ensuring learners achieve strong outcomes and meaningful progression
- Managing, supporting, and inspiring teaching staff
- Strengthening employer and industry partnerships
- Maintaining compliance with awarding bodies and quality frameworks
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a subject¿specialist leader with:
- Strong expertise in Engineering and/or Motor Vehicle disciplines
- Experience of curriculum leadership, programme management, or senior teaching roles
- A passion for vocational education and learner success
- The ability to lead teams with credibility, clarity, and vision
- A commitment to inclusive practice, continuous improvement, and industry relevance
Why Join Furness College?
Furness College is a welcoming, ambitious, and forward thinking provider with strong links to industry and an excellent reputation for technical education. We offer:
- A supportive and collaborative leadership culture
- Investment in professional development and career progression
- Modern facilities and strong employer partnerships
- The opportunity to make a genuine difference to learners’ futures
Be Part of Something That Matters
This role offers the opportunity to lead a curriculum area that is essential to local industry and national skills priorities. If you are ready to take the next step in your leadership journey and help shape the next generation of engineers and motor vehicle professionals, we would love to hear from you.
Why join us?
At Furness College, our vision is: To be the provider of choice for education, skills and training. Our values are what drive us each day, they shape all of our decisions.
These values are:
- Learner First: We place learners at the centre of everything we do.
- Excellence: We strive for excellence in every aspect of our performance
- Integrity: We are honest, trustworthy and open.
- Supportive: We are reassuring, encouraging and care about all aspects of wellbeing, providing a safe and welcoming environment for all.
- Always Improving: We are forward-thinking, we celebrate and learn from success, innovate and take ownership.
- Can do: We are positive, inclusive, flexible and proactive.
How we support you?
At Furness College, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to take part in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected] so we can ensure that you have the support you need.
Rewards and Benefits:
- Enhanced leave allowance of:
- Support staff: 30 days (plus bank/public holidays and our Christmas closure).
- Teaching staff: 42 days (plus bank/public holidays and our Christmas closure).
- Management: 35 days (plus bank/public holidays and our Christmas closure).
- Enhanced pension scheme:
- Teachers pension scheme (TPS)- 28.68%
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)- 8.1%
- Extensive additional benefits to support you.
It is proposed that Furness College will merge with Blackpool and The Fylde College from 1st August 2026. If the merger goes ahead as planned any employment that starts after 1st August 2026 will be on Blackpool and The Fylde terms and conditions.
Safeguarding Statement:
Furness College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and staff. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken, including an enhanced DBS check with barred lists and references. Please refer to the job description for safeguarding responsibilities specific to this post.
Because of the nature of the work for which you are applying this post is ‘exempt’ from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exceptions) Order 1975 as amended by the ROA 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) Order 1986.
Pay: Up to £47,408.00 per year
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Relocation assistance
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Barrow-In-Furness LA14 2PJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
