Role: Salon Coordinator

Location: Central Beds College - Dunstable Campus

Salary/Benefits: Salary from £29,000 DOE and Qualifications, 27 days annual leave plus Bank holidays, Peoples pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.

Hours/Weeks: 37 Hours per week, to include 7pm finishes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Salon Coordinator to join The Bedford College group at our Hair and Beauty Department.

As a Salon Coordinator you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Ensuring the assessments for Hair & Beauty students are planned and delivered as authentic assessments on outside clients
• Managing stock
• Being responsible for commercial takings and cashing up procedures within the commercial salon
• Assisting lecturers in the Hair and Beauty salon to supervise and instruct learners, in order to ensure improved learner success, progression and learner satisfactio
• Promoting salon services to perspective clients through the use of social media.

About you:

Essential

• Good problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to instruct and demonstrate to group of learners and individuals in the relevant programme
• Ability to assess the outcomes of learning and learning achievements
• Good IT skills

Desirable

• Demonstrate an understanding of the current and future curriculum developments within own specialist area
• Experience in the role of practical instruction and demonstrate and assessment to groups and individual learners
• Experience of professional salon supervision
• Experience with using databased systems
• Possess an NVQ Level 3 in Hair & Beauty or equivalent qualification
• Willing to work towards or possess a Learning and Development Assessor Award

Interviews to be held on 21st August 2024.

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

About The Bedford College Group
The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year.

Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire:"Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and"Tresham"College"in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough;"Shuttleworth"College,"a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport"alongside"Silverstone"race circuit."To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding our Students
The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to thorough vetting process which includes, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide. The Bedford College Group's policy on Employment of Ex-Offenders is attached to this vacancy.

Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.