Total 22 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Morecambe, Lancashire

Are you passionate about fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable learning environment? Do you have the vision and leadership skills to drive positive change in higher education?

About Our College:

Our college is driven by a passion for education and a genuine desire to inspire and motivate our students. We strive to ignite their curiosity, fuel their aspirations, and unlock their full potential. We firmly believe that every student deserves an exceptional educational experience that prepares them for a successful future.

The Role:

As the Director of Inclusion, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the college's inclusive policies and practices. You will lead initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across all aspects of campus life. Your work will ensure that every member of our community feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and Inspire: Develop and implement comprehensive inclusion strategies that foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion across all college activities.
Collaborate and Advocate: Work closely with faculty, staff, and students to promote inclusive practices and policies, ensuring all voices are heard and respected.
Innovate and Educate: Design and deliver training programs, workshops, and initiatives that enhance understanding and appreciation of diversity within our community.
Monitor and Improve: Assess and report on the effectiveness of inclusion initiatives, using data-driven insights to continuously improve our approach.
Engage and Empower: Serve as a resource and advocate for underrepresented groups, providing support and guidance to ensure their success and well-being.

About You:

Leadership Excellence: Proven experience in a leadership role focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, preferably within an educational setting.

Effective Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and inspire a wide range of stakeholders.

Strategic Vision: A strategic mindset with the ability to develop and implement long-term plans that align with the college’s mission and values.

Commitment to Inclusivity: A passionate commitment to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals feel valued and supported.

Benefits:

By choosing to work with us, you'll enjoy a wide range of benefits. You’ll receive a holiday package of 38 days annual leave (full time equivalent) as well as an enhanced employer pension contribution. Based at our rural campus in Lancashire, you will enjoy working in a bespoke and sector leading facility with a passionate and supportive team of colleagues who are committed to inspiring excellence.

How To Apply:

Please don't hesitate to get in contact with our team to arrange an informal discussion with the hiring manager: recruitment@myerscough.ac.uk or 01995 642289.

Safeguarding:

Please note that as part of our commitment to safeguarding our students, our background screening checks include limited online searches. Online searches will only be undertaken in respect of the successful candidate, as a pre-conditional term of our job offer.

Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance. Our recruitment process has been designed to keep students safe and to ensure that we appoint safe and suitable people.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment background and safeguarding checks.

The successful applicant will be responsible for complying with all safeguarding policies and practices, and for ensuring student safety and wellbeing is at the forefront of everything they do.

This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we want all our candidates to have a fair and equal opportunity to secure employment with us. We encourage applications from all underrepresented groups: BAME applicants, disabled applicants, and LGBT+ applicants.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, due to a disability, then please speak with a member of the People team.

As a disability confident employer, we commit to guaranteeing an interview for any disabled applicant who meets all of the essential criteria.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Funeral Director
£34,756 (£14.69 per hour) plus benefits
Full time 45.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday - this role will also include on call rota covering evenings and weekend.
Bury BL9 0EX


No experience needed.


We're looking for an empathetic and commercially minded person to join the Co-op Funeralcare team.


You don't need industry experience. If you have great people skills, and a real commercial focus, you could be perfect for this role.


At Co-op Funeralcare, we provide a caring and compassionate service when families need it most. As a funeral director, you'll be right at the heart of that service. You'll balance your time between managerial and business tasks, and building strong, trusting relationships with clients.


At the Co-op, you'll be part of something meaningful. Join us today.


What you'll do


* make sure client needs, service levels and KPIs are met
* be clients' main point of contact; supporting and guiding with the help of the wider team
* support funerals - conducting the ceremony, leading the team and carrying the deceased when necessary
* make sure all regulated work, including funeral planning appointments, is referred to a 'certified colleague'
* build and maintain relationships with the team, clients and the community


This role would suit people who have


* a commercial mind-set and experience in a managerial role
* a true customer focus and a real passion for delivering a great service
* the ability to capture intricate detail and make sure it is reflected in the service we deliver
* compassion, understanding and empathy, and the ability to keep a cool head under pressure
* a UK manual driving licence


Why Co-op?


You'll get a fantastic benefits package including:


* 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores all year-round
* 10% off other brands in our food stores all year-round (doubles to 20% on the Friday and Saturday after payday)
* discounts on other Co-op products and services
* 23 days holidays (pro rata, rising with service)
* a pension with up to 10% employer contributions
* access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential advice and support on anything you're struggling with, 24 hours a day
* access to virtual GP and free eye tests
* endless career development opportunities including apprenticeships
* friendly, supportive team and the knowledge that you make a huge difference to your community
* access to Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
* YuLife - an app that rewards your for exercising with discounts and vouchers for all kinds of brands


At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities


Building an inclusive work environment


We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve. 


If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.


We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.


If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.


You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.


You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.


As part of your application you'll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 20 minutes to complete this test.


If you're successful in your application, we'll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include a DBS (disclosure and barring service) and adverse media checks, and an occupational health questionnaire (to ensure you are fit to perform the role). We'll also check your social media activity on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


Any offer of employment made will be conditional upon the completion of pre-employment screening checks.

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered.
Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters. These roles provide a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative, that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.
We've a great opportunity for an experienced Management Liability Underwriter (MLP) to join the team, focussing on underwriting within the MLP portfolio, to maximise our opportunity for growth and profitability. Partnering and developing our key strategic and highly valued premier broker accounts, we're looking for a confident and credible individual to make decisions and recommendations to assist in the development and control of profitable underwriting, supporting new and existing opportunities, whilst monitoring the performance of management liability products.
Above all, we’re looking for a real team player, that is able to make a difference across both their own teams and other internal and external stakeholders.
What you’ll be doing: You’ll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you’ll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You’ll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, across new and existing business within the key markets.

We’ll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow: It’s our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That’s why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
Build a career that’s as dynamic as the market you work in: We’re on a journey of transformation, so we’re investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.
Shape your career one decision at a time: We’ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Director of Learning for Technology with a proven track record of success in improving standards and raising pupil outcomes. We want to hear from talented middle leaders looking to extend their experience, and outstanding, ambitious teachers seeking their first middle leadership post.

As an experienced teacher, you will develop an exciting curriculum that suits every type of learner and have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of our young people. The successful candidate will be a committed team player with excellent organisational and motivational skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead a successful faculty drawing on your extensive teaching and leadership experience. As a Star middle leader, you’ll join the Star Academies family, a high-performing and supportive network of primary and secondary schools with some of the best leaders in education.

You will have:


• A degree-level qualification and Qualified Teacher Status.
• The ability to teach to GCSE standard.
• The ability to coach and motivate colleagues to achieve individual and collective targets.
• Experience of sustained delivery of outstanding attainment and achievement.
• Experience of innovation and creativity to engage, enthuse and progress learners.



What the school offers its staff



About Oulder Hill Leadership Academy

Oulder Hill Leadership Academy is a secondary school for 11 to 16 year olds in Rochdale. We joined Star Academies in 2021 and, like all Star schools, we have a leadership specialism.

We are a rapidly improving school with high ambitions and expectations for all of our pupils. We provide a knowledge-based academic curriculum alongside a rich and diverse leadership programme that grows character and inspires charitable and social action. Our pursuit of educational excellence is based upon our fundamental belief that every pupil has the capacity to become a successful and inspirational leader.



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.

Are you a visionary leader with a proven track record of transforming curriculum and cultivating a culture of high achievement?

We seek a highly accomplished Director of Curriculum (Land-Based) to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our unique college. This brand-new senior leadership position offers the opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact on our land-based curriculum and the lives of our students.

About Our College:

Our college is driven by a passion for education and a genuine desire to inspire and motivate our students. We strive to ignite their curiosity, fuel their aspirations, and unlock their full potential. We firmly believe that every student deserves an exceptional educational experience that prepares them for a successful future.

The Role:

In this senior leadership role, you will provide strategic direction and leadership for the land-based curriculum, encompassing Agriculture & Countryside, Animal Studies, Greenspace, Veterinary Nursing, Farriery, and Equine. You will be a champion for curriculum excellence, ensuring it aligns with college strategy, national priorities, and employer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide visionary leadership: Develop and implement a land-based curriculum that is innovative, inspiring, and prepares students for thriving careers.
Drive curriculum excellence: Lead curriculum development, resourcing, monitoring, and improvement to ensure the highest quality teaching, learning, and assessment.
Foster a dynamic learning environment: Motivate and empower your curriculum areas to deliver exceptional land-based programs.
Cultivate strategic partnerships: Build strong relationships with industry stakeholders and external partners to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.
Resource effectively: Manage budgets and resources to ensure the successful implementation of the land-based curriculum.

About You:

Proven track record: Experience leading curriculum development and implementation, preferably within the land-based education sector.
Strategic vision: The ability to translate strategic goals into a dynamic and impactful land-based curriculum.
Exemplary leadership: A strong leader who can inspire, motivate, and empower curriculum and colleagues.
Excellent communication: Exceptional communication skills to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
Passion for education: A deep commitment to education and its potential to transform students' lives.

Benefits:

By choosing to work with us, you'll enjoy a wide range of benefits. You’ll receive a holiday package of 38 days annual leave (full time equivalent) as well as an enhanced employer pension contribution. Based at our rural campus in Lancashire, you will enjoy working in a bespoke and sector leading facility with a passionate and supportive team of colleagues who are committed to inspiring excellence.

How To Apply:

For more details, please go to our jobs page where you can view the full job summary and apply: www.myerscough.ac.uk/why-myerscough/job-vacancies/

Please don't hesitate to get in contact with our team to arrange an informal discussion with the hiring manager: recruitment@myerscough.ac.uk or 01995 642289.

Safeguarding:

Please note that as part of our commitment to safeguarding our students, our background screening checks include limited online searches. Online searches will only be undertaken in respect of the successful candidate, as a pre-conditional term of our job offer.

Safeguarding our students is of paramount importance. Our recruitment process has been designed to keep students safe and to ensure that we appoint safe and suitable people.

All successful applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment background and safeguarding checks.

The successful applicant will be responsible for complying with all safeguarding policies and practices, and for ensuring student safety and wellbeing is at the forefront of everything they do.

This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we want all our candidates to have a fair and equal opportunity to secure employment with us. We encourage applications from all underrepresented groups: BAME applicants, disabled applicants, and LGBT+ applicants.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, due to a disability, then please speak with a member of the People team.

As a disability confident employer, we commit to guaranteeing an interview for any disabled applicant who meets all of the essential criteria.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Your new company
The Lancaster Hospital is part of Circle Health Group, Britain's leading provider of independent healthcare with a nationwide network of hospitals & clinics, performing more complex surgery than any other private healthcare provider in the country. Circle Health Group is proud to be recognised as one of the UK's top 5 best big companies to work for and is the top 5 to work for in the health and social care sector. We have an opportunity for the Director of Clinical Services to join their team of staff in the Senior Management Team. This role is the Director of Clinical Services as well as CQC Registered Manager (jointly held by. Executive Director and Director of Clinical Services at LancasterThis is a full-time role for 37.5 hours a week. The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern.
Your new role

• The Director of Clinical Services is responsible for providing clinical direction and strong, professional leadership to all clinical staff including nursing, allied health professionals and medical staff either directly employed or working under practising privileges.
• The Director of Clinical Services must lead and drive the delivery of excellent clinical standards of care within all clinical areas, driving a culture of patient safety, clinical effectiveness and continuous improvement of the patient's experience.
• As a member of the Senior Management Team, the Director of Clinical Services must ensure the hospital team's provision of safe, effective, caring and responsive patient care in a safe, high-quality clinical environment in a way which maximises the financial and operational performance of the hospital. The Director of Clinical Services has a responsibility to ensure all appropriate measures are taken to maintain, promote and safeguard the wellbeing and interests of patients, employees and visitors.

What you'll need to succeed

• Registered Nurse Level 1 or Registered practitioner / Diploma / relevant Health Speciality Degree/ Degree Level qualification
• Evidence of relevant professional development, both clinically and managerially, preferably evidenced by a registered qualification with the NMC, HCPC or GPC
• Ability to motivate a team of clinical professionals
• Proficient in the use of a PC, including the use of software and systems
• Knowledge of NHS Standard Contract requirements
• Experience of working in the Independent Sector
• Professional experience in more than one clinical speciality or discipline
• Understanding of service re-design, clinical pathways and system reform
• Commercial experience
  Must be RN - RCN registered given uniqueness of site demands

What you'll get in return
Circle Health Group is committed to offering competitive starting salaries and access to a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions
• Friends & Family Hospital Discounts
• Family Friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity & Adoption pay
• Non-contributory life insurance
• Staff engagement hub with access to discounts and extensive rewards and voluntary benefits
• Access to resources, tools and services to support your wellbeing
• Employee recognition programmes
• Industry leading training and development opportunities
  …and much more!

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Join our team!

Are you a results driven leader looking for their next oppoutunity? Due to business growth we are looking for an enthusiastic Managing Director to join our fantastic team within the North West

Managing our Education division, whilst reporting to the UK Managing Director. The Divisional Managing Director is responsible for increasing market share, delivering sustained growth and net operating profits by retaining and developing existing business and creating / implementing strategies across the area of responsibility. Working in partnership with senior clients, building strong relationships.

What you'll be doing...

The Regional Managing Director's key repsonsibitlies include:

• Responsible for developing operational strategies which underpin the positive delivery of annual sales targets / budgets. Manage and control overhead costs, preparing contingency plans where appropriate
• Build and proactively maintain external relationships with all clients to exceed expectations, deliver a value-added service proposition to grow the divisions competitive advantage
• Lead the operational function of our education portfolio, responsible for building of high-performing team, including recruitment, development, talent management and succession
• Develop and embed a culture to ensure that Food Safety, Health and Safety and Financial compliance is strictly adhered to within the sector at all levels
• Collaborate more widely across the UK business working effectively with all functional / divisional directors

Working Pattern: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week

What can you bring?

In this role:

• Previous senior director role, ideally in the education sector (Primary, Secondary & Colleges)
• Significant experience in the development and implementation of successful growth strategies and business controls
• A proven successful leader of teams who can successfully embrace change
• Proven experience in successful client relationships and strong negotiation skills
• Will be an exceptional leader of a group of operations directors and a wider team of operators, Marketing and Food Development Team
• Will have experience in running a high value multi outlet operation over a substantial geographical area (500+ schools)
• Will have experience of proactive P&L management and budgetary achievement
• Will have experience in solution finding for market challenges
  

Our way of saying thank you...

At Elior, we strive to ensure that our colleagues feel appreciated & rewarded, which is why we offer generous rewards & benefits in exchange for your dedicated efforts.

FREE On-Site Lunches: Enjoy complimentary lunches, saving you time & money while ensuring you stay nourished & energised throughout the day.

Support Your Way of Life:

• Flexible Working: We offer full-time & part-time roles, with varying shift patterns across the business. Allowing colleagues the flexibility to balance their personal & professional commitments
• Hybrid Working Model: Collaborate & innovate in the office three days a week while enjoying focused work-from-home days
• Holiday Allowance: Relax & recharge with 31 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
• Additional Holiday Purchase Option: Customise your time off by purchasing extra holidays
• Family Leave: Prioritise family commitments with flexible leave options
• Paid Charity Leave: Make a positive impact with two additional paid days for charity work

Big Enough for Growth, Small Enough to Connect:

• Opportunities for career progression while developing a close-knit community

Supporting You Through Life's Ups & Downs:

• Access mental health support & comprehensive wellbeing benefits

Keeping Finances & Wellbeing in Mind:

• Life assurance, workplace pension schemes, discounts, cashback, entertainment, leisure discounts, & a cycle to work scheme

Why it's great to work for us...

Elior is a multi-award-winning people business and one of the UK's leading contract caterers, with over 10,000 colleagues operating across a diverse range of sectors including:

• Workplaces & Office Space
• Sporting Venues & Stadiums
• Attraction & Heritage Sites
• Public Sector & Defence
• Health, Care & Hospitals
• Schools, Colleges & Universities

Along with our purpose of enriching lives everywhere, every day, we're committed to an inclusive culture and want our people to feel appreciated, supported, and fulfilled.

That's why 85% of colleagues tell us how proud they are to work for us!

Elior Celebrates Equality Our aim is to celebrate a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, continuing to make Elior a great place to work! Every colleague has a distinctive set of values, skills, and aspirations. To ensure that we attract, develop, and retain best people from the widest possible talent pool we're committed to providing an inclusive environment where our colleagues fulfil their potential and have the opportunity to succeed.