Learning and Skills Manager - WLC00758


Company:	West Lothian College
Salary:	£58,554 to £58,554 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Livingston, EH54 7EP
Working pattern:	Hybrid
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Sept 2026
Closing date:	30 Sept 2026

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Job Description

Learning and Skills Manager

Care, Health and Sport

Start Date: ASAP

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £58,554 (pending pay award/salary subject to pending job evaluation)

This salary includes £2,500 market allowance, which is in place until the outcome of job evaluation is confirmed and then will be reviewed.

West Lothian College is looking to appoint a Learning and Skills Manager within the Care, Health and Sport faculty.

This is a key role to realising excellence across a range of college activities, to support, develop and enhance the curriculum teams across our Health and Social Care and Social Science departments. The successful candidate will manage the curriculum portfolio within the faculty, to ensure it is inclusive, high quality and dynamic.

Supporting the director in achieving the goals of the faculty’s operational and strategic plan, you will oversee the curriculum to ensure student success through effective delivery, guidance and support. You should provide inspirational leadership for staff and ensure sufficient opportunities for their continuous development.

This role requires an individual with superb communication skills and demonstrable experience of staff management, to be an inspirational manager, to ensure staff and students alike, are able to meet standards of educational excellence. Please note this role does not have a teaching or assessing commitment.

Applicants should also be qualified to SCQF Level 9, with evidence of continuous professional development, preferably with a teaching qualification and/or management qualification. Experience within the Health and Social Care and Social Science setting would be desirable, however other areas of expertise would be welcomed and considered.

Those shortlisted for interview will be required to deliver a presentation in addition to the competency-based interview. 

Closing date for applications is 2359hrs on

30th September 2026.

Interviews will take place onsite at West Lothian College on

12th October 2026.

To find out more about West Lothian College, working for us, our application process, our accreditations of being a Disability Confident Leader as well as being an SCQF Inclusive Recruiter please refer to the information tabs beside our home section on myjobscotland.

All applications must be made through myjobscotland. If you require support with your application, would like to discuss the application process or require documentation in an alternative format please contact HR@west-lothian.ac.uk

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