Head of School - Digital, Media and Expressive Arts - The City Of Liverpool College : Job Details

About the College:

The City of Liverpool College is the largest further education college in the Liverpool City Region. With more than 600 members of staff, hundreds of courses, five campuses and over 10,000 students, we are at the forefront of education in our region.

We proudly scored GOOD in our 2024 OFSTED inspection, with several areas graded outstanding. Ofsted described our student experience as “transformative and life-enhancing”.

We’re committed to supporting every student to achieve and progress with the skills and expertise they need for their next step. We couldn’t do this without the people who make this happen every day – our brilliant staff.

The Role

The Head of School for the newly-established school of Digital, Media and Expressive Arts is a key leadership position, managing the curriculum design and implementation of provision from level 1 to level 6. The role-holder will be instrumental in implementing a research-informed pedagogical approach, drawing upon best practice whilst meeting regional and national policies and expectations. The role will implement strategies that build upon lessons learnt from the ‘pandemic years’ to take the best parts of a blended learning approach to support catch up learning, reinforcement and the stretch and challenge of all learners within the School. In addition to ensuring the delivery of an outstanding student experience, the Head of School will develop relationships with, and be a key link for, awarding organisations, employers, educational institutions and industry trailblazers within the city region and beyond. The role-holder will use these links to shape and enhance the curriculum offer and teachers’ knowledge and skills, leveraging these relationships to support the role of dual professionals. 

The Head of School for Digital, Media and Expressive Arts is a member of the Wider Leadership Team (WLT). The post-holder manages a Deputy Head of School (Digital) and a Deputy Head of School (Expressive Arts and Media), and will support other members of the WLT in delivering an outstanding student experience across all aspects of the learner journey. The Head of School will, from time to time, deputise for the Head of Faculty Culture and Visitor Economy.

The School

The School of Digital, Media and Expressive Arts is a diverse school (c.700 students) within The City of Liverpool College, enrolling young people and adult on a range of 16-19 Study Programmes, adult-specific provision, and higher technical education programmes. This school aligns strategically with a priority Liverpool City Region industry cluster (Creative and Digital) and the school has been established with the aim of developing a curriculum that is co-designed and co-delivered with industry partners, where relationships with businesses in the sector can be leveraged to continuously upskill staff and students to provide world-class skills and talent for sustainable employment.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, gender, gender reassignments, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age adhering to the requirements of Equality Act 2010.

As part of our positive action measures to increase equality, diversity and inclusion at The College, we offer guaranteed interviews to individuals who meet all the essential criteria whilst having declared they have a disability or are from a minority background.

The college also follow a blind shortlisting process.

The City of Liverpool College Group serves 12,000 learners each year from a diverse variety of backgrounds. With state-of-the-art facilities, TEF Silver status for Higher Education provision, the College is home to ground breaking innovation and involved in a wide variety of exciting new developments across the city.

The College is committed to safeguarding children and safer recruitment practices and will undertake all required DFE pre-employment checks on the successful candidate including Enhanced DBS Disclosure including a Barred List Check.