Role: Lecturer - Hairdressing and Barbering
Location: Brooks Hair and Beauty, Bedford
Salary/Benefits: Salary from £31,000 DOE and Qualifications, 45 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, Teachers pension, Retail and Leisure Discounts, excellent professional and personal development opportunities, accessing college courses.
Working Pattern: 37hrs per week (1.0 FTE)
Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
About the role: We are currently seeking a Hairdressing and Barbering Lecturer to join The Bedford College Group at Brooks Hair and Beauty, Bedford.
As a
Hairdressing and Barbering Lecturer, you play an important role in the success of our students through:
- Preparing, delivering and assessing on a range of hairdressing courses and levels.
- Supporting and guiding students to achieve success and realise their potential.
- Managing students' learning and providing a high quality learning experience.
- Contributing pro-actively to developments in the Centre in innovative teaching.
About you: Ideal candidates will have:
- Level 3 relevant qualification
- GSCE Maths and English (grades A - C) or equivalent
- Assessor Award/Verifiers Award or Willingness to achieve Assessor/Verifier qualifications
- Successful experience of providing training, assessing and/or education to young people and/or adults
- Experience of delivering learning to groups
- Experience of working effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
- Up to date knowledge of the current developments in own specialist area
- Ability to communicate effectively and confidently face to face, on the telephone and in writing
- Responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for raising any concerns
Willingness to work at all locations where Bedford College provide a service
Interviews to be held on 13th September 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 Bedford College Bedford College has a number of sites across the town and surrounding areas, these include our main Cauldwell Street campus in the heart of the town, our hair and beauty salon on the High Street, the advanced automotive centre on Brunel Road and the gas and technology plumbing centre in Kempston.
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.