Overview
Job Title: Deputy Head of Apprenticeships
Salary: Commencing at £43,492 with progression to £46,133 per annum
About the Role
What You Will Do
- Provide comprehensive support to the Group Head of Apprenticeship Services across all areas of college leadership and management, with a strong focus on quality, teaching, learning, and assessment to ensure outstanding outcomes for learners.
- Oversee the effective delivery of all courses within the department, ensuring compliance with awarding body standards, funding requirements, and quality assurance frameworks.
- Ensure financial targets are achieved to maximise income generation and value for the department.
- Lead a defined area of provision, ensuring the curriculum aligns with local and national priorities, adapts to demand and funding changes, and delivers outstanding student outcomes.
- Champion a culture of ‘Leading Learning’ across the College, conducting regular staff observations—including developmental, walk-throughs, and contributing to cross-college processes as needed.
- Inspire and motivate learners to achieve, develop essential skills and behaviours, and progress confidently in their chosen paths.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality advice, guidance, induction, and skill development for all learners.
- Strive for apprenticeship retention, achievement, success, and progression rates that consistently exceed national averages year-on-year.
About You
- Hold a Level 3 (or above) qualification in leadership and management, along with Level 2 (or above) in English and Maths.
- Demonstrated experience in engaging with employers, delivering effective apprenticeship programmes, and successfully tracking and monitoring apprentices to ensure timely completion, with a strong background in leadership and management within an apprenticeship environment.
- Experience in managing budgets, forecasting costs, ensuring financial compliance, and overseeing high-quality apprenticeship delivery in line with quality assurance frameworks.
- Knowledge of apprenticeship funding, including submitting and managing funding reports within a dedicated funding team or role.
- A motivational leader and coach, fostering a collaborative high-performing environment while effectively influencing, challenging, and supporting colleagues across the organisation.
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.
