PSHE Curriculum Lead

UNITED LEARNING; Remote; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A national educational organization seeks a PSHE Curriculum Lead to enhance PSHE provision across schools. Key responsibilities include developing a high-quality curriculum, providing support to school leaders, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in leading PSHE, teaching sensitive topics, and managing public communications. This role offers a competitive salary and the option for flexible working arrangements, promoting work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Contributory pension scheme

26 days holiday

Occupational sick pay

Maternity and paternity benefits

Group Life Insurance

Health cash plan

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in leading PSHE provision at primary and/or secondary.
• Experience of teaching sensitive and challenging topics.
• Proven experience of managing public-facing communications.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality PSHE curriculum resources.
• Support school leaders with effective PSHE implementation.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements for PSHE.

Skills

Leading PSHE provision

Teaching sensitive topics

Managing public communications

Using Great Teaching Toolkit principles

Working autonomously

Commitment to equal opportunities

Education

Extensive experience in PSHE curriculum development

Understanding of diverse cultures and faiths

Job description

PSHE Curriculum Lead

Job reference: REQ004395

Salary: £50,614 (pro rata: £25,307 if 0.5 FTE)

Contractual hours: 37.5

Basis: Full Time

Region: National

The Role

• Continuethe resourcingof a high quality PSHE curriculum informed by evidence and bestpractice andmeeting the requirements of statutory RSHE guidanceandGroup policy.
• Undertake a curriculum mapping exerciseto assessthequalityand completeness of Citizenship provision in ourcurriculum and ourschools,and work with other curriculum writers and subject advisers as needed to ensure that, as a whole, ourcurricular provision across all subjects meets the requirements of the statutory Citizenship National Curriculum programmes of study.
• Provide support to schools to improve PSHE provision (including statutory RSHE and Citizenship) asrequired.
• Provide support to schools on teaching of challenging topics, developingand sharing best practice approaches in line with Group policy to ensure that, sensitive content is taught effectively, inclusively, and in a way that ensures statutory compliance.
• Provide responsive support to schools and/or the central team on matters arising from the delivery of sensitive content, including complaints, press enquiries and freedom of information requests.
• Ensure that all schools have access to high quality resources that allow them to deliver the PSHE Curriculum effectively.

This will include

• Developing materials to support teachers – such as readable teacher packs and asynchronous CPD clips – which provide detailed subject knowledge and guidance on how to deliver a knowledge-rich PSHE curriculum
• Supporting school leaders with effective implementation, offering tailored guidance and best practice examples to help school leaders drive the successful implementation of PSHE in their own schools.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, providing guidance and monitoring mechanisms to ensure that curriculum delivery across our schools meets statutory standards and is consistently reviewed and updated to reflect changes in legislation.
• Building Trust capacity for high quality PSHE delivery by creating opportunities for cross-school collaboration, ensuring that PSHE is integrated with broader school priorities.
• Promoting inclusion and diversity within the PSHE curriculum, ensuring that resources reflect the diverse needs and backgrounds of students, and that PSHE education promotes an inclusive, respectful school culture.
• Building and maintaining relationships with third party providers as needed, to ensure schools have access to a rich and complete offer.
• Coordinate a network of PSHE Leads from within our schools.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with external organisations, as appropriate.
• Provide an expert voice to schools and the central team on PSHE, RSHE and Citizenship.

About You

• Have extensive experience in leading PSHE provision at primary and/or secondary, including developing and implementing a high-quality curriculum.
• Have experience of teaching, and supporting others to teach, sensitive, challenging and controversial topics.
• Have experience of managing issues arising from the delivery of challenging topics including public-facing communications such as responses to complaints, press enquiries and/or FoI requests.
• Be an expert in using the principles of the Great Teaching Toolkit, Rosenshine’s Principles and/or Teach Like a Champion, and be able to exemplify this in PSHE curriculum resources and guidance.
• Have proven experience of working autonomously and delivering at pace to agreed timelines and project plans.
• Be excited to share their knowledge and expertise with a diverse family of schools and be able to travel to schools across the country when required.
• Understand and respect the importance of diverse cultures and faiths within the school, with a commitment to equal opportunities.
• Be aligned with United Learning’s values and embody our ethos of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’.

Rewards and Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 26 days holiday.
• Occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family.
• Competitive maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits.
• Group Life Insurance Scheme.
• Westfield Health cash plan and extensive range of employee benefits for eligible staff.
• Continuous Professional Development options that will be tailored to your needs.
• A supportive team across the country.

We are open to requests for flexible working; and we encourage open and regular conversations about work-life balance.

Further information

This vacancy closes at midnight on January 19th, 2026. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a large volume of applications.

Please note this role has flexibility to be offered at full-time or part-time at 18.75 hours per week (0.5FTE).

To help us understand your approach to driving improvement in PSHE – and to help you understand if this is the kind of work you would be interested in – there is a three-stage recruitment process.

Short-listed candidates will be invited to complete a short task in the window of 22nd January 2026 - 29th January 2026. Following the short task short listed candidates ill be invited to a 1-hour interview, conducted on 5th February 2026 over Ms Team.

For a confidential discussion about this role or the process, please contact: Jo Brennan, our Group Secondary Curriculum Lead, at [e-mail]

If you are applying internally, please apply via your ESS account (Internal Vacancies page). You will be required to submit a personal statement with a summary of your experience that make you suitable for this role. There is a character limit of 4000-character limit (roughly one and a half to two sides of A4).

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://ce0374li.webitrent.com/ce0374li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=730210BWJi

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