Job Description
Learning and Skills Manager
Care, Health and Sport Faculty
Start Date: 4th August 2025 (subject to PVG completion)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £54,500 (salary subject to pending job evaluation)
This salary includes a £2,500 market allowance, which is in place until the outcome of the job evaluation is confirmed and then will be reviewed.
West Lothian College is seeking to appoint a Learning and Skills Manager within the Care, Health and Sport faculty.
This key role aims to achieve excellence across various college activities by supporting, developing, and enhancing curriculum teams within the Childhood Practice and Sports and Fitness departments. The successful candidate will manage the curriculum portfolio to ensure it is inclusive, high-quality, and dynamic.
Supporting the director in fulfilling the faculty's operational and strategic goals, you will oversee the curriculum to promote student success through effective delivery, guidance, and support. You should provide inspirational leadership to staff and ensure opportunities for their continuous professional development.
This role requires superb communication skills and demonstrable staff management experience. The candidate should be an inspirational manager, enabling staff and students to meet standards of educational excellence. Please note, this role does not involve teaching or assessing responsibilities.
Applicants should be qualified to SCQF Level 9, with evidence of continuous professional development, preferably including a teaching qualification and/or management qualification. Experience within the Childhood Practice and/or Sports and Fitness sectors is desirable. Industry experience in an educational setting is essential.
Benefits include generous leave entitlement, a career average pension scheme, excellent on-site facilities such as a gym and restaurant, along with transport, health, wellbeing benefits, and retail discounts. The college's location in the town centre provides easy access to shops and restaurants.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to deliver a presentation in addition to participating in a competency-based interview.
Closing date for applications is 23:59 hrs on Wednesday, 7th May 2025.
Interviews will be held onsite at West Lothian College on Tuesday, 20th May 2025.
For more information about West Lothian College, our application process, and our accreditations as a Disability Confident Leader and SCQF Inclusive Recruiter, please refer to the information tabs beside the home section on myjobscotland.
All applications must be submitted through myjobscotland. If you require assistance with your application, wish to discuss the process, or need documentation in an alternative format, please contact HR@west-lothian.ac.uk.
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