Faculty Lead – Arts and Creative Industries

Role: Faculty Lead – Arts and Creative Industries

Location: The Bedford Sixth Form

Salary/Benefits: Salary up to £48,925 per annum DOE and Qualifications.

Hours/Weeks: 37 hours per week – 39 weeks per year

Contract Type: Permanent

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Faculty Lead in Arts and Creative Industries to join our Sixth Forms department at The Bedford College Group.

As a Faculty Lead, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Strategic Leadership & Vision – Act as a key member of the extended leadership team, supporting the strategic direction of The Bedford Sixth Form through curriculum planning, performance management, and continuous improvement of teaching and learning.
• Curriculum & Student Outcomes – Oversee all subjects within the faculty, ensuring high-quality schemes of work, outstanding student progress, and effective use of data to drive achievement, enrichment, and post-18 progression.
• Team Management & Development – Line manage subject staff, lead performance reviews, support professional development, and ensure effective communication, mentoring, and succession planning across the team.
• Teaching & Learning Delivery – Maintain a minimum teaching commitment of 10 hours per week, delivering engaging, high-quality lessons, contributing to curriculum development, and supporting extracurricular and promotional activities.
• Operational & College-Wide Responsibilities – Manage budgets, ensure compliance with policies, attend cross-campus meetings, and support college-wide activities including open days, ID checks, and exam invigilation.

About you:

• Qualifications & Experience – Holds a degree and teaching qualification (PGCE or equivalent), with recent professional development and a strong understanding of Post-16 and A Level education.
• Leadership & Improvement – Proven experience in leading A Level provision, implementing improvement strategies, raising achievement and retention rates, and managing high-performing teams.
• Analytical & Organisational Skills – Excellent data analysis, project management, and decision-making abilities, with strong prioritisation and organisational skills to manage complex workloads.
• Communication & Professionalism – Outstanding verbal and written communication, ability to influence at all levels, maintain confidentiality, and build professional relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Values & Commitment – Demonstrates high standards, a passion for education, commitment to safeguarding, and flexibility to travel and adapt working hours to meet the needs of the college.

For a more detailed breakdown of the job role and the requirements, please see the Job Description attached to this vacancy.

Interviews to be held: TBC

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisationalVISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork – We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously – We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred – At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive – We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring – We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence – We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About The Bedford Sixth Form

The Bedford Sixth Form helps students to achieve their career aspirations through high academic success. We strive to offer a sixth form experience that’s different to school and one that will make our students stand out from the crowd.
Our excellent teachers are not only subject specialists but experts in teaching 16-19 year olds, so you will benefit from their focused knowledge and experience. What’s more, our beautiful period building offers you a legacy of excellent education combined with the latest facilities.

About The Bedford College Group

The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students

The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group’s policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.

Documents

TBCG Ex-Offenders Policy.pdf

Faculty Lead Arts and Creatives JD.docx