Course Leader - English

About the Role

Leeds City College are seeking a committed, creative, and forward-thinking Course Leader of English to join their dedicated and dynamic team based at our Quarry Hill Campus.

The School of Creative Arts supports over 1,600 learners, primarily aged 16–18, across three vibrant departments:

• Creative Media and Digital Arts
• Music and Performance Production
• Visual Arts

Quarry Hill is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art campus that opened in 2019. It offers outstanding facilities including a 180-seat Chroma-Q Theatre, five fully equipped dance studios, two professional recording studios, TV production suites, dedicated IT suites, and a range of specialist spaces for textiles, printmaking, art, and photography.

• Manage course outcomes by ensuring retention, achievement, progress, attendance, and positive progression rates for assigned courses.
• Develop and update curriculum including new modules, units, and courses aligned with policies, awarding bodies, student needs, and local economic demands.
• Plan and deliver teaching by preparing schemes of work, lesson plans, assessments, and providing constructive feedback to motivate and inspire learners.
• Maintain quality and effectiveness across the course team, supporting professional development and adapting teaching to meet diverse student needs.
• Monitor and record student progress, ensuring targets are met and assessment activities are timely, accurate, and encouraging.
• Support marketing and student engagement through providing information, advice, guidance, and participation in open days, enrolment, and induction activities.

• Ability to inspire and motivate learners to achieve their optimum.
• Relevant up-to-date subject knowledge and recent delivery in the Further Education or school sector.
• Recent teaching delivery demonstrates active learning and differentiated teaching styles in any setting.
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible towards the requirements of different learner needs.
• Experience of setting appropriate SMART targets to ensure progression of learners.

Annual Leave

• Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
• Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension Schemes With Generous Employer Contributions

• Teachers’ Pension Scheme
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• People’s Pension Scheme

CPD Opportunities

• Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.

Qualifications Including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership And Management Courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives:
Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting:
Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities:
Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

Leeds City College is one of the largest further education institutions in the country and is one of the biggest providers of apprenticeships regionally. We provide a vibrant and diverse learning environment, delivering excellent and innovative education which is supportive, inspiring and life changing. Leeds City College’s values put students first and are at the heart of everything the college does.

We are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our staff. You’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow. We offer a wide range of job vacancies, and our large size means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre‑employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you…