Programme Director - Health and Social Care and Early Years

Inspire Futures, Lead Learning, Empower Change – Join Us as Programme Director for Health and Social Care / Early Years

Are you ready to shape the next generation of health and childcare professionals? At EKC Folkestone College we’re looking for an inspiring Programme Director (Course Leader) for Health and Social Care / Early Years - a role where your teaching expertise and leadership will make a lasting difference.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and qualified lecturer or teacher who thrives on delivering high-quality learning experiences while helping to steer the curriculum forward.

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver engaging, inclusive and innovative teaching, learning and assessment.

• Support, guide and inspire students to achieve their full potential.

• Lead and coordinate your delivery team, ensuring all learners receive up-to-date and consistent course information.

• Shape and develop a curriculum that meets local and regional skills needs, in collaboration with department leadership.

• Design course activities, resources and handbooks that promote clear understanding of objectives, assessment criteria and progression routes.

As Programme Director, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our students are fully equipped for success - whether progressing to higher education or entering the workforce.

Join a team that values creativity, innovation and student-centred learning — and help us unlock potential, transform lives, and build brighter futures.

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application. 

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.