Overview
Job Title: Advanced Practitioner – Quality Teaching, Learning & Learning Improvement
Salary: Commencing at £33,352 with progression to £38,651 per annum
Closing Date: 2025-09-01
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Practitioner – Quality, Teaching & Learning Improvement (QTLI) to support our journey to excellence across Leeds City College, Keighley College and Harrogate College. This role that will be integral to the development of Teaching Learning & Assessment (TLA) across our curriculum departments.
As the Advanced Practitioner (QTLI) you will be part of a credible and experienced central TLA team providing excellent customer service and support for curriculum departments in helping them to drive forward the Luminate TLA Strategy, alongside the improvement plans for their areas.
You will be an innovative teacher with a proven record of ‘good or better’ teaching, learning and assessment practice. Responsibilities will include coaching staff, completing short lesson visits and learning walks, delivering training to maximise the development of our staff and working alongside curriculum managers to plan and measure the impact of quality improvement strategies in their areas.
We would be particularly interested in applicants who can demonstrate a track record of implementing TLA strategies with impact, leading changing and innovation and/or have previous experience in mentoring and coaching staff to bring about improvements. You will have a confident and empathic approach and be able to build relationships with colleagues built on trust and credibility, getting the best out of those that you work with.
There will be a requirement to deliver teaching in a curriculum department appropriate to your skills and expertise (1 day a week).
The Advanced Practitioner (QTLI) will work at scale across the organisation, so if you’re looking for a new challenge then this is the role for you. If you are passionate about teaching, learning and assessment and want to join an innovative and ambitious team, then take a look and apply!
If you wish to pick up an informal conversation get in touch with the recruiting manager natasha.armitage-evans@leedscitycollege.ac.uk
What You Will Do
- Work alongside a team of 5 Advanced Practitioners.
- Work alongside a team Quality Coordinators.
- Be at the ‘cutting edge’ of research and innovative TLA practice.
- Collaborate with leaders and managers across the organisation to drive change.
- Develop strategies for continual improvement.
- Mentor and coach staff across the organisation.
About You
- Organised.
- Develop great relationships.
- Innovative.
- Collaborative.
- A Change Agent.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
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.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. 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 are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
- We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
- We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.
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