Campus Vice Principal

Location: HMP Dovegate, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, ST14 8XR
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Full-time

Ready to impact a better future?

As a Campus Vice Principal in our Justice and Immigration College team, you’ll provide strategic and operational leadership for all Education, Skills and Work provision across HMP Dovegate. You’ll help shape opportunities that enable learners to develop skills, gain qualifications and progress towards sustainable employment upon release.

This is a senior leadership role with real purpose. Working closely with prison and college leadership teams, you’ll champion education as a key driver of rehabilitation, creating positive impact on communities by supporting learner progression, reducing reoffending and helping individuals build better futures. Your leadership will create an ambitious culture where innovation, trust, care and pride are at the heart of everything we do.

What you’ll do as a Campus Vice Principal

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Lead all Education, Skills and Work provision across the campus, ensuring delivery meets contractual requirements, learner needs and organisational objectives


• Act as the Head of Education, Skills and Work, providing strategic educational leadership and expert advice to senior prison stakeholders


• Drive high standards of curriculum design, teaching, learning and assessment to improve learner achievement, progression and employability outcomes


• Lead quality improvement activity, ensuring inspection readiness and compliance with regulatory and contractual standards


• Oversee operational performance, resources, budgets and workforce planning to deliver effective and efficient educational services


• Develop strong partnerships with employers, external organisations and internal stakeholders to create impactful solutions and meaningful progression pathways for learners

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Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• Significant experience leading education, skills and work provision within further education, prison education or another regulated learning environment


• A successful track record of leading large multidisciplinary teams and delivering high-quality educational outcomes within complex operational settings


• Strong knowledge of curriculum development, quality improvement, inspection frameworks and performance management


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level and build trusted relationships


• A degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience, alongside a recognised teaching qualification such as PGCE, Cert Ed or Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training

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Vetting and checks:

A Standard DBS check will be carried out for this position. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and warnings as permitted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. An Occupational Health Questionnaire will also be completed so we can ensure you have the necessary support to perform your duties.

Discover all you need to keep growing

We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: Up to 25 plus bank holidays


• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme


• Bonus: A performance-based bonus scheme


• Company car: A company car or cash alternative


• Private medical insurance


• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression


• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service


• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel


• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity


• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.

Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, a top Great British Employer of Veterans, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.


• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

For support with your application, please contact [email protected].

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

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