Head of Department for Structural Technologies
Windsor Forest Colleges Group, Station Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL3 8BY16 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
11 September 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
26 August 2026
Job details
Job role
- Leadership and management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Building and construction
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £45196.00 - £48286
What skills and experience we're looking for
Candidates must possess a degree-level qualification alongside a recognised teaching qualification, supported by recent, successful experience running vocational courses and maintaining high student success rates in trade disciplines. Essential criteria include proven expertise in managing or mentoring instructional and academic staff, setting performance targets, and maintaining the rigorous student discipline and safety awareness required for practical workshop environments. The role requires exceptional communication and decision-making skills, physical and financial resource management capabilities to oversee specialised structural technologies equipment and materials, and proficiency in using Information Learning Technology (ILT) to enhance technical training. A deep understanding of 14-19 Further Education and contemporary structural technologies industry developments is highly advantageous
What the college offers its staff
Our staff benefit from:
- Generous non-working day entitlement
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) currently offering 28.68.% employer contribution
- Free onsite parking at all sites
- Access to a wide range of subsidised leisure courses
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family friendly policies supporting Work Life Balance
- Onsite Coffee Shop & Cafeteria
- Various health & wellbeing benefits including discounted gym memberships, confidential staff counselling and discounted hair and beauty treatments at The Salon at our Langley College site
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Windsor Forest Colleges Group
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- Recruitment@windsor-forest.ac.uk
The Windsor Forest Colleges Group (TWFCG) is a leading education provider in the South East. Our staff work across 4 main campuses at Langley, Windsor, Strodes Egham and Berkshire College of Agriculture Maidenhead. Our teams place the learner at the heart of all we do and in our state-of-the-art learning environments, we are proud to deliver education and training to a diverse group of students and businesses each year.
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