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 College’s 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
1. To oversee leadership of the programmes delivered within the curriculum area ensuring highly effective delivery of teaching, learning and assessment.
2. 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.
3. Ensure all targets set for recruitment, attendance, punctuality, retention, achievement and progression are regularly reviewed and monitored with programme teams.
4. To promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development and Innovation, and facilitate the sharing of best practice.
5. Effectively manage the programme teams to ensure all aspects of the College’s quality assurance processes are fully implemented.
6. Lead the team to effectively engage with, and produce a robust self-assessment report.
7. Co-ordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the College’s exams team
8. Support the Centre Director to ensure that programme teams are consistently high performing through effective use of the College’s performance management system, including conducting performance review meetings.
9. Lead, motivate and support programme teams so that they can make a full and valued contribution to the development of the programme area.
10. To deliver 324 hours per year of scheduled teaching
11. Support and lead the team to fully prepare for external/internal inspection and all audits.
12. Effectively manage all cost centre budget allocations in line with the College’s financial regulations.
13. Be responsive to internal and external college initiatives
14. Be an active member of the cross college teaching and learning observation team.
15. Work with marketing and others partners to raise the profile of the area.
16. 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 College’s 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 committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and colleagues and we expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. The college complies with Safer Recruitment guidance in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and all successful applicants are required to undertake a DBS check and other pre-recruitment checks in line with our Safer Recruitment policy. It is an offence to apply for a regulated role at the College if you are barred from working with children (or vulnerable adults if in a role where this applies).
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and exemption orders 1975, 2013 and 2020.
Hopwood Hall College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.