Beauty Lecturer at Grantham College in Grantham NG31 9AP

Job Reference: BTL/10.2026

Salary: This is a part time role with an actual salary of up to £8,839.11 per annum, and a full-time equivalent salary of up to £29,917 per annum dependent on skills and experience.

Working Hours: 9.75 hours per week over 4 days, 52 weeks per year.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Beauty Lecturer to join our Hair and Beauty department.

The purpose of the role is to demonstrate a high quality professional practice and provide quality teaching and learning at a variety of levels. Devise action plans and maintain appropriate records.

The successful applicant must have:

· Minimum 2 years recent practical experience gained within the relevant setting/current industrial experience

· Actual teaching experience outside teacher training routes full or part time

· Minimum teaching qualification/equivalent or working towards

· Qualified to a minimum of L3 Beauty Therapy

· A1 or equivalent qualification

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and spoken

· Team orientated approach with the ability to work effectively on your own and as part of an effective team.

· A strong desire to maintain and raise standards

· Be flexible within a team

· Excellent organisational skills

The roles main duties include:

· To teach, using an appropriate mix of traditional, e-learning and blended learning approaches, on a range of courses within both the hairdressing and beauty therapy curriculum area and across areas.

· To take responsibility for specific areas of work within the curriculum area.

· To provide support and guidance to students.

· To operate as an effective member of relevant course teams and to work closely with other areas.

· To carry out administrative duties associated with teaching, including maintenance of registers, schemes of work, assessments, reports, course records and course evaluations to a satisfactory standard and within established deadlines.

· To ensure safe working practices are observed by yourself and others (including students) for whom you are responsible.

· To provide such returns or reports as may from time to time be required by the Head of Curriculum or College.

· To assist in the recruitment of students, including interviewing and enrolments.

· To assist in the marketing of the College provision through attendance at Careers Conventions, Open Days and other promotional events.

· To assist in the development of curriculum support materials.

· To assist with programmes of work experience and/or industrial and commercial liaison, including the organisation and monitoring of work experience placements.

· To ensure the principles of equality and diversity are upheld.

This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.

Fancy a 4-day working week*?

Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month

Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.

What we offer you in return:

· An excellent pension scheme :

o Teachers’ Pension: Employer Contribution 28.68%

· A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year

· In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:

o 7.4 Weeks for Academic employees,

· Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service

· Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service

· Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave

The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 15 November 2026.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview.

You are welcome to download a full application pack from our website www.grantham.ac.uk

Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form.

Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This employment offer is subject safeguarding checks and a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Pay: Up to £8,839.11 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Cycle to work scheme
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person