Curriculum Manager

Curriculum Manager - Health and Social Care Are you passionate about shaping the future of Health and Social Care education? We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Curriculum Manager to lead and inspire our dedicated team within the Health and Social Care department.

About the Role:

As Curriculum Manager, you will be responsible for providing effective leadership and operational management of your teams. You will work closely with the Centre Director to ensure the department contributes to and achieves the Colleges strategic objectives of becoming an outstanding, innovative, and customer-focused provider. Your leadership will drive growth in student recruitment, enhance the quality of teaching and learning, and ensure service excellence across all aspects of curriculum delivery.

Key Responsibilities To oversee leadership of the programmes delivered within the curriculum area ensuring highly effective delivery of teaching, learning and assessment. To lead and support curriculum innovation within the programme team to ensure the curriculum offer is effective in meeting the needs of learners and employers in line with national, regional and local government agenda. Ensure all targets set for recruitment, attendance, punctuality, retention, achievement and progression are regularly reviewed and monitored with programme teams.

To promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development and Innovation, and facilitate the sharing of best practice. Effectively manage the programme teams to ensure all aspects of the Colleges quality assurance processes are fully implemented. Lead the team to effectively engage with, and produce a robust self-assessment report. Co-ordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the Colleges exams team Support the Centre Director to ensure that programme teams are consistently high performing through effective use of the Colleges performance management system, including conducting performance review meetings.

Lead, motivate and support programme teams so that they can make a full and valued contribution to the development of the programme area. To deliver 324 hours per year of scheduled teaching Support and lead the team to fully prepare for external/internal inspection and all audits. Effectively manage all cost centre budget allocations in line with the Colleges financial regulations.

Be responsive to internal and external college initiatives Be an active member of the cross college teaching and learning observation team. Work with marketing and others partners to raise the profile of the area. Any other duties of a similar level of responsibility as may be required. Skills, Knowledge & Expertise Qualifications

Essential Criteria Teaching Qualification Desirable Criteria Degree and/or relevant professional qualification How Identified:
Application Experience

Essential Criteria Recent experience of curriculum development within FE Academic/industrial/commercial experience in one of the areas of the curriculum work.

Experience of using college wide systems. Desirable Criteria Management experience including responsibility for quality, staff and curriculum How Identified:
Application/Interview Specialist Knowledge

Essential Criteria Knowledge of the curriculum portfolio Ability to teach on programmes within the curriculum How Identified:
Application/Interview IT Skills

Essential Criteria Intermediate user of Microsoft applications Ability to use technology to generate information and improve efficiency How Identified:
Application/Interview About Hopwood Hall STAFF BENEFITS Career average pension scheme Free gym membership at our Middleton Campus Sports Arena Purchase loans for computers and bikes Staff discount at the Colleges Riverside Salon, Sports Arena and Holiday Clubs On-site nursery (Rochdale Campus) Credit union for savings, low cost loans and life assurance Free on-site parking On-site Dog Kennels (spaces not guaranteed) An electric and hybrid car salary sacrifice scheme (with charging points on site) A cycle to work scheme Discounted public transport tickets Generous holiday entitlement (Teaching staff: 53 days, Business Support staff: 35 days (From 1st August 2026) plus bank holidays Christmas/New Year closure and the opportunity to buy additional holidays Two Health and Wellbeing days per year Subsidised bistro and refectory We are a Further Education College and University Centre offering a range of full and part time courses employing over 600 staff on our campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated to the north-east of Manchester.

We are committed to being a great place to work and have membership status of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. We are a Living Wage employer and an accredited Disability Confident Employer. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process. We are…