Apprenticeship Professional Development Lead

Apprenticeship Professional Development Lead

Location: Cross College

Salary: £38,059.16 FTE ()

Terms & Conditions: Full Time (37 hours/52 weeks), Teaching Contract

Closing Date: 14 August 2026

Interview Date: 21 August 2026

The Cornwall College Group is looking for an ambitious and innovative Apprenticeship Professional Development Lead to join Team TLA. This is an exciting opportunity to support the continued development of teaching, learning and assessment across our apprenticeship provision.

We are seeking someone who:

• Has substantial experience teaching, training or assessing apprentices
• Understands the unique challenges and opportunities within apprenticeship delivery
• Has a track record of improving learner achievement, progress and employer satisfaction
• Has experience coaching, mentoring or delivering CPD to colleagues
• Can support teachers, trainers and assessors to develop innovative and impactful practice
• Is confident using digital technologies, including AI, to enhance learning and assessment
• Can analyse quality, compliance and performance information to inform improvement activity

The successful candidate will work with apprenticeship managers, curriculum teams and the wider TLA team to design and deliver professional development, carry out learning walks, identify effective practice and support colleagues to improve outcomes for apprentices and employers.

The role includes 0.2 delivery within apprenticeship provision to ensure your practice remains current and credible.

If you are passionate about apprenticeships, quality improvement and developing others, this is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact across the Group.

We have excellent terms and conditions of employment. We offer:

• Generous annual leave schemes: 42 days
  * per annum for teaching roles (pro-rata for part-time), plus a paid Christmas closure of two weeks for most roles.
  * 37 days annual leave at commencement of employment, increasing to 42 days after successful completion of probationary period.
• Access to generous occupational pension schemes for teachers and support staff.
• Flexible and supportive family friendly working practices.
• A range of staff development activities available and all employees have access to free tuition on many of our courses.
• A range of health and wellbeing initiatives to our employees including access to free counselling and a corporate eye care scheme.
• Employee discount scheme via a corporate benefit scheme – discounts with major retailers.
• Most of our campus sites offer free parking to employees as well as discounted restaurants and salons.

The Cornwall College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful appointment to this role will require satisfactory completion of recruitment checks.